Age: China

Materials from China

Spilled Water

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

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.

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Little Pear And His Friends

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Six-year-old Little Pear has many adventures with Big Head and his other friends in his village in China.

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Around the World

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This book portrays a gritty game of street basketball being played literally around the world, from New York to Australia to China, and elsewhere, and then back to New York.

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