BTS: 100% Unofficial – Everything You Need to Know About the Kings of K-pop
by Malcolm Mackenzie
BTS are an international sensation in the world of K-pop! This boyband has sold out arenas, topped charts and gained an army of fans all over the world. Inside this ultimate guide, learn about RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook; seven boys who can rap, sing, dance and entertain! Packed with profiles, pictures, facts, stats and gossip, 100% Idols: Unofficial BTS lets you meet the superstars who have propelled themselves to worldwide fame! Also available:100% Unoffici...
Describes many familiar things that originally came from India, including inventions, food, religions, animals, musical instruments, medicine, games, words, and fashion.
"Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series, Chinese New Year is illustrated with color photographs throughout. Readers will learn how a simple gathering of family and friends grew into a weeklong, worldwide festival."--
Malaysia (Growth & Influence of Islam S.) (Major Muslim Nations)
by Barbara Aoki Poisson and Shelia Noonon
Benazir Bhutto (Signature Lives (Paperback)) (Signature Lives (Hardcover))
by Mary Englar
Let's Explore China (Bumba Books (R) -- Let's Explore Countries)
by Walt K Moon
Concise, yet packed with information, these user-friendly volumes are introductions to modern nations of the world.
There is a real fascination about samurais as they are an essential part of the Japanese popular culture. Brave and intelligent warriors, trained to fight the most fearsome enemies, they are almost considered magical beings or legends. They ruled Japan for centuries and had high prestige and special privileges such as wearing two swords. Who were they? What great battles did they fight? How did samurais train when they were your age? Were there samurai women? This book will help you comprehen...
Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father’s pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind yellow parasols, and...
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Population 1.3 Billion (24/7: Behind the Headlines Special Editions)
Acupuncture, gun powder and the secrets to spinning silk are innovations that we have come to associate with China. But did you know that the Chinese also invented the umbrella? And toilet paper, initially made from rice straw clumped together, was first used in China! Through the ages, the Chinese have used the resources available to them to improve their lives. Their development of the compass and the paddleboat helped facilitate the often difficult tasks of travel and trade, and many foods a...
Japan - The Land (Revised, Ed. 3) (Lands, Peoples & Cultures)
by Bobbie Kalman
The Bee Tree is a magical story about giant bees, about trees that are higher than your eye can see in a forest that is more dark than light, and about a young boy named Nizam who soon will become a man. Nizam lives in a village near the rainforest preserve surrounding PeduLake, just below the Thai border in Peninsular Malaysia. His grandfather Pak-Teh is the leader of the honey hunting clan. It is Pak-Teh who has the high honor of climbing the tall Tualang tree in the annual hunt to gather hon...