The Cooking of China
By Matthew Locricchio
By Matthew Locricchio
Introduces
the different culinary regions of China through recipes adapted for
young chefs and discusses the basics of food handling and kitchen
safety.
For
five hundred years, the Forbidden City was the seat of power of China's
emperors. Explore its secrets in full-color photographs and lively,
meticulously researched stories. From a grand procession of elephants to
the golden nail guards that protected the emperor's three-inch nails,
details large and small bring this fortress to life for young armchair
travelers. With contributions from the Palace Museum (the official
museum of the Forbidden City), this is a definitive guide to one of the
wonders of the world and the only book on the subject available for
young readers.
By Laurence Yep
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is
sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working
to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra
Nevada mountains in 1867.
Red Scarf Girl with Connections: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
By Ji-li JiangTwelve-year-old Ji-li Jaing has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China's infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao's extreme politics. When Ji-li's family is accused of capitalist crimes, all of her beautiful dreams burst like soap bubbles.
By Ji-li JiangTwelve-year-old Ji-li Jaing has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China's infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao's extreme politics. When Ji-li's family is accused of capitalist crimes, all of her beautiful dreams burst like soap bubbles.
Spilled Water
By Sally Grindley
By Sally Grindley
After
her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who
expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry
their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.
By Geraldine McCaughrean
In
thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a
horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing
adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up
meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
By Grace Tseng
When his mother's beautiful brocade is snatched away by a greedy
goddess, a young Chinese boy faces many perils as he attempts to get it
back.
By Robert San Souci
A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl
masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan's army.
By Jennifer Armstrong
Absent-minded poet Wan
Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several
unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.
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