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Seekers of the Aweto volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Xinyue and his brother are seekers, hunting Aweto--a rare, plantlike treasure--along the Silk Road. When Xinyue discovers the child of a deity that creates Aweto, it disrupts his already turbulent life."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that is now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
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Phoebe and her unicorn volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Recounts the further adventures of Phoebe and her unicorn friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostril.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Do you believe in unicorns? Phoebe does. She has no choice. One day she skipped a rock across a pond, and hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this resulted in a lasting friendship between Phoebe and the unicorn, one Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. Come along for the unicorn ride with Phoebe, as she deals with the usual burdens of childhood (cruel classmates, gym class, piano lessons) and also some unusual ones (magic hair, candy-breathing dragons,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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"Garfield attempts to ship Nermal and Odie to a far-off corner of the world, but ends up stranded with them in China! When Jon comes to rescue his pets, they all get tangled up in a race for ancient treasure, plus three more lasagna-loving, Monday-hating adventures based on the hit Cartoon Network TV series!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Award-winning China Mieville's entry in the highly publicized DC Comics--The New 52, DIAL H, is now collected in this deluxe edition. There exists dials in the world, that hold unbelievable power -- the ability to turn you into a super hero! Once Nelson accidentally discovers one such dials, his life will never be the same as he travels the world in search of a relic that could explain their Dial H powers. But new and diseptively dangerous villians...
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Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Phoebe and her unicorn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Do you believe in unicorns? Phoebe does. She has no choice. One day she skipped a rock across a pond, and hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this resulted in a lasting friendship between Phoebe and the unicorn, one Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. Come along for the unicorn ride with Phoebe, as she deals with the usual burdens of childhood (cruel classmates, gym class, piano lessons) and also some unusual ones (magic hair, candy-breathing dragons,...
10) The art of war
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"For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. But its underlying philosophy lends itself to infinite applications: an elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle or in business or in relationships. Now, in his crisp,...
12) Boxers
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army of Boxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Peter Parker has gone international, and he's making his next stop in China -- where he discovers the malevolent Mister Negative has two of Spidey's former friends in his thrall: the fan-favorite duo Cloak and Dagger! Can our ever-amazing wall-crawler handle two inverted heroes without falling prey to Negative's influence himself? And Peter's globetrotting doesn't end in the Far East -- a final showdown with the Zodiac will lead him all across Europe!...
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City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight.
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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When the entire workforce of Stark China simply vanishes, Iron Man jets out to investigate. He soon discovers they've been shanghaied to build The Mandarin's latest technological horror: a dragon ship that lays waste to everything in its path!
19) Saints
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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It is 1898 and the Boxer Rebellion of Chinese peasants is threatening the lives of all Chinese Christians in the land. "Four-Girl," a young daughter unwanted by her parents, becomes a Christian when she finds friends in Christian missionaries, who give her the name Vibiana. When Little Bao with his Boxers finds Vibiana's compound, Vibiana will have to determine if she is loyal to China, or to Christ.