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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.
Author
Series
Daughters of the dynasty volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When budding actress Gemma Huang flies to Beijing to star in a film of M. Butterfly, she is mistaken for a notorious socialite, kicking off a series of revelations her parents had carefully concealed from her.
Gemma Huang's acting career has a big break: she's asked to play a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly filming for the summer in Beijing. At the airport she is stopped by paparazzi, and realizes she may as well be the twin of Alyssa Chua,...
Author
Series
Daughters of the dynasty volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beijing, 1989. Lei is set to inherit her family's carefully guarded legacy: the centuries-old art collection of Empress Wu Zetian. If the Chinese government were to find about its existence, she and her family would face deadly consequences-- especially her father, a high-ranking official in the Communist Part. As Lei becomes pulled to the causes of the students, and to Delun, a student at Beijing University involved in the protests. Soon she will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
6) Iron widow
Author
Series
Iron Widow volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The legendary Nian monster has returned at Chinese New Year. Nian is intent on devouring Shanghai, starting with young Xingling! But Xingling is clever and thinks quickly to outwit him with Chinese New Year traditions"--
8) Descent
Author
Series
Peak Marcello adventure volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy"--
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Na has always been in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her parents' cherished son. But when Bao-bao dies suddenly, Na realizes how little she knew him. And he wasn't the only one with secrets"--
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother. --Provided by publisher.
11) Alone like me
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Liling moves from her home in the mountains of China to the big city, her parents cannot afford to send her to school, and she spends her days with her mother, wishing she had a friend--until she sees a girl in a yellow coat, who lives in the next building, comes from a different mountain, and is happy to be Liling's friend.
12) Forbidden City
Author
Series
City Spies volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun tradition, experiencing the thrill of nighttime in their village....
14) The shady tree
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ping returns and deals with the selfish Tan Tan, who owns a beautiful house and a beautiful shady tree, but who does not share, so Ping turns Tan Tan's greed into his own gain, but remains true to his generous nature.
Author
Series
Billy Clikk volume 2
Publisher
Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Billy's double life - elementary school in Piffling, Indiana, and international monster killer - intensifies as he makes his first solo creatch-op in a Chinese mountain village.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.
18) Mulan's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Princess Mulan shares the incredible tale of how she risked her life for her father and bravely fought to save the Chinese empire in this full-color storybook based on Disney Mulan.
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