Theme: China

The Pea Blossom

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 11, 2007

In a garden near Beijing, five peas in a shell grow and wait to discover what fate has in store for them.

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First Apple

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

The author describes 1940s China and her quest, as a nine-year-old girl, to buy a precious apple for her grandmother’s birthday. By the author of A Day on a Shrimp Boat.

Descriptors: Asia, China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Comments closed

Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta

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

Relates the adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five-thousand-mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco.

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