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781) Beyond Skyline
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the Earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.
782) The forty thieves
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A loose retelling of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, set in tenth-century Baghdad, in which twelve-year-old Marjana tries to keep her brother, Jamal, from joining a gang while helping Ali Baba, their master's cruel brother.
783) Takaoka's travels
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A fantasy set in the ninth century, Takaoka’s Travels recounts the adventures of a Japanese prince-turned-monk on a pilgrimage to India. As Prince Takaoka and his companions pass through faraway lands, the rules of the ordinary world are upended, and they find curiosities and miracles wherever they go. The travelers encounter strange creatures--a white ape who guards a harem of bird-women, beasts who feed on dreams, a dog-headed man who can see...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Combining the humor and warmth of Bringing Up Baby with the insight of The Smartest Kids in the World, World Class is a firsthand exploration of how American schools are failing our children, and what parents can learn from the Asian education system to help our children excel in today's competitive world"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A collection of 21 riotous tales and riddles about the Mullah Nasruddin. Why does Mulla Nasruddin spoon yoghurt into the river? What is the reason he rides his donkey backwards? Why does he paint a picture that is blank? And is he crazy to move into the house of the man who's just burgled him? Find out all about the amazing antics of Nasruddin in these twenty-one hilarious stories and riddles, famous throughout the Middle East for their jokes, riddles...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
Gretel Ehrlich returned to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to hear the stories of survivors. The result, a blend of reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, tells the stories of rice farmers, monks, fisherman, and others who lived to tell about the disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China's repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. In recent years, the People's Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls "reeducation camps," facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps....
789) Tua and the elephant
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, nine-year-old Tua releases an abused elephant from its chains--can she complete the rescue by getting it to an elephant refuge without being caught herself?.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da.
But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past -they are former landowners who have no place...
791) China in ten words
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Appears on list
Description
Uses a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into China's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations, and ubiquitous practices of deception.
792) Ming goes to school
Author
Series
Ming stories (Deirdre Sullivan) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with new friends and old, but she is still not quite ready for the big red slide.
793) Dolls of war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In 1941, eleven-year-old Macy James lives near the Oregon coast with her father, the director of a small museum. Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight exquisite friendship dolls given to America by Japan in 1926, is part of the museum's collection and one of Macy's most treasured connections to her mother, who recently passed away. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, many of Macy's neighbors demand that Miss Tokyo be destroyed. When her brother joins the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When their family falls on hard times, thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari, try desperately to keep their home intact--an almost impossible task until Hari gets a chance to go to Bombay and returns with some positive plans for the future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Li weaves stories of her family with the recipes of her ancestry. The book centers on her relationship with Nai-nai, her grandmother. She celebrates a host of festivals, from the Chinese New Year with good-luck money gifts to the little-known April 4 Festival of Grave Sweeping. In stories and in the nearly 20 recipes, Li reveals the tale of an Asian woman caught between many different worlds and times and places.
797) Berani
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"Tough and Cheerful is a story about the world's tallest mountain, the evolution of Nepal, and a man who has been part of the staggering transformation of both. As the last living member of the 1953 first summit of Mount Everest, with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Kanchha's history is one never to be forgotten...Kanchha's personal story takes us through time and mountain ranges, from scarcity to abundance, from challenge to conquest, from personal...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Appears on list
Description
"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"As long as he can remember, Xian has wanted to be a great calligrapher, like his father. When he turns six, he's finally old enough to start studying. Calligraphy is more than writing--it's painting--and Xian learns how much work and creativity go into what look like effortless strokes. Based on stories still told about Xian and his father, famous calligraphers of the 4th century, Eighteen Vats of Water is about determination, creativity, and learning...