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Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Meet the fearless and curious Walker and his precocious pup Jack as they explore a new home in China and bump into best-friend-to-be Ping Ping in the debut episode of this exciting new adventures-learning series. In this adventure, Walker meets worldly wise Grandpa Joss for the first time, and the group sets out to collect three symbols from the Great Wall of China. While learning neat stuff about this ancient and imposing barrier, the group runs...
23) English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Library edition
Language
English
Description
During the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old Love Liu lives in the region of Xinjiang. Here conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange. Into this stifling atmosphere comes a tall, clean-shaven teacher from Shanghai with an English dictionary. Love Liu turns to the dictionary for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life, and a whole new world opens up for him giving him and his classmates hope....
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