Age: Asia

Materials from Asia

Little Mist

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Little Mist is a sweet-faced snow leopard cub who is wide-eyed with wonder at the world before him. Guided and protected by his mother, Little Mist discovers the glistening snow, the mountain streams, and the cloud forests. The world may look big to a little cub, but one day, his mother tells him, he will [...]

Other Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Fiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Fox and Phoenix

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

The king of Long City is dying. For Kai Zu, the news means more than it does for most former street rats in the small mountain stronghold, because he and the king’s daughter are close friends. Then the majestic ruler of the ghost dragons orders Kai to travel across the country to the Phoenix Empire, [...]

Other Descriptors: Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Shaolin Tiger

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

The unlikely heroes of the Cockroach Ryu face their greatest danger yet — a warrior seeking revenge against his former teacher, Sensei Ki-Yaga.The White Tiger Temple is under threat. To help the Shaolin monks, Sensei KiYaga and the whole gang of samurai kids— from Niya Moto, the boy with one leg to Taji, the boy [...]

Other Descriptors: China, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Japan » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

A Girl Named Faithful Plum

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She’d already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But Zhongmei, whose name means [...]

Other Descriptors: Biography, China, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Waking: Spirits of the Noh

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Kara Foster is finally starting to fit in at her boarding school in Japan—after all, nothing bonds you with your classmates like having an ancient demon put a curse on you. Hoping life can go back to normal now that the demon has been put to rest, Kara joins her friends Sakura and Miho in [...]

Other Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Japan » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Ghosts in the Fog

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

Few know the story of the Japanese invasion of Alaska during World War II–until now.GHOSTS IN THE FOG is the first narrative nonfiction book for young adults to tell the riveting story of how the Japanese invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. This fascinating little-known piece of American history [...]

Other Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Japan, Nonfiction » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Nowhere Girl

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

Luchi Ann only knows a few things about herself: she was born in a prison in Thailand. Her American mother was an inmate there. And now that her mother has died, Luchi must leave the only place she’s ever known and set out into the world. Neither at home as a Thai, because of her [...]

Other Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Thailand » Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Cooking of India

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book introduces the different culinary regions of India and presents many kinds of recipes for traditional Indian dishes.

Other Descriptors: India, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Cooking of Thailand

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book introduces the different culinary regions of Thailand and presents many kinds of recipes for traditional Thai dishes.

Other Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Thailand » Themes: , » Leave a comment

The Cooking of China

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book introduces the different culinary regions of China and presents many kinds of recipes for traditional Chinese dishes.

Other Descriptors: China, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , » Leave a comment