From American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang: an innovative look at China's Boxer Rebellion told from two points of view, in two companion volumes. China, 1898. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. She finds friendship - and a name, Vibiana - in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christ...
The Story of Noodles (Amazing Chinese Inventions)
by Ying Chang Compestine
"Compestine's almost tongue-in-cheek tale is a nearly unbeatable combination of slapstick humor, fast pace, and food."Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Back from The Story of Chopsticks, the Kang brothers are in for another culinary misadventure."Publishers Weekly The village always expects Mama's famous dumplings to win the annual cooking contest. However, this year the Kang brothers play with the dough, and soon, long strips fly everywhere. With no time left, the family can bri...
De Marinero a Samurái (船乗りから侍へ) (Leyendas Bilingües, 651N)
by Jessy Carlisle and Lily Nadalin
The Tomb of Time (Magic Mirror, #3)
by Luther Tsai and Nury Vittachi
When China is invaded by the Huns, Mulan decides that she must disguise herself as a soldier -- a man -- to fight in place of her ill father, who has been called up for war.
The Master Puppeteer (Avon Camelot Book S.)
by Katherine Paterson
A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.
Kindness has incredible consequences in this compelling novel set in colonial India from a “master storyteller” (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award-winning author. It is India, 1918, six months after the end of World War I, and Rosalind awaits the return of her father from the war. Rosalind is kept from boarding school in England at her mother’s insistence. While her father has been at war, Rosalind sees the country slowly change. A man named Ghandi is coming to power, talking about non...
A Vietnamese child remembers wartime and her relationship with her grandfather, the village herb doctor.
The communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 is very hard for Viet Nguyen, fourteen, and his family but when Viet foolishly tries to speed up their plans to escape he is arrested and sentenced to the harsh life of a labor camp in the jungle.
The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy (Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy, #1)
by Claire Youmans
The diversely talented Samurai Kids set off to rescue their friend — and find secrets in their midst — as the action-packed martial-arts series continues. The Samurai Kids are ready to travel back from China to the Cockroach Ryu, nestled in Japan's Tateyama Mountains. But then the unthinkable happens: Kyoko, one of the Cockroaches, is kidnapped. Sensei knows it is the mark of his old enemy Lu Zeng, an evil minister of the Forbidden City who is obsessed with eternal life. The Cockroaches must ma...
The Discovery of Fireworks and Gunpowder (The Asian Hall of Fame)
by Phil Amara and Oliver Chin
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai have burned his former village.
Super Funny Stories (Akbar And Birbal, #0)
by Wonder House Books .