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Materials from Asia

Duel

In Jerusalem, when elderly Mr. Rosenthal receives a threatening letter accusing him of stealing a painting and challenging him to a duel, twelve-year-old David needs to find who really stole it before someone gets hurt.

Published: 1999,
Tags: Orphans
Categories: AsiaAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), IsraelAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Israel, Mystery and Thriller

Priya’s Day

This is a bilingual book which tells the story of a little girl Priya and her busy day. It not only tells a story in two languages, it engages readers and listeners in a very special way to create their own very special books.

Published: 1998,
Tags: Healers, Seasons
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, IndiaAsia, Fiction, India, Primary (ages 6-9)

Breath Of The Dragon

A five-year-old Thai girl, Malili waits in vain for her mother–who has gone to America to make a new life–to send for her and finds solace in her passion for drawing and love for her grandmother.

Published: 1997,
Tags: Ghosts and spirits, Immigrants, World War I
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Thailand

An Elephant in the Backyard

This book describes how special elephants are in the village of Tha Kleng in Thailand and looks at the life of one particular young elephant named Wan Pen.

Published: 2004,
Tags: elephant, Endangered, Life
Categories: AsiaAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), NonfictionAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9)Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Thailand

The Weight Of The Sky

A sixteen-year-old girl travels to Israel to spend the summer on a kibbutz and discovers who she is and what she wants out of life.

Published: 2006,
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, IsraelAsia, Fiction, Israel, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Little Oh

A mother tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who becomes separated from her human mother.

Published: 1997,
Tags: Apartheid, Childhood, Race relations
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, JapanAsia, Fiction, Japan, Primary (ages 6-9)

Azerbaijan

An overview of the history, culture, peoples, religion, government, and geography of Azerbaijan.

Published: 2006,
Categories: AsiaAsia, AzerbaijanAsia, Azerbaijan, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Azerbaijan, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction

The Seven Chinese Sisters

When a dragon snatches the youngest of seven talented Chinese sisters, the other six come to her rescue, in a delightfully illustrated update of a classic Chinese folktale.

Featured in Volume I, Issue 3 of WOW Review.

Published: 2003,
Tags: Dragon, Rescues, Sister
Categories: AsiaAsia, ChinaAsia, China, Folklore and Fairy TalesAsia, China, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Primary (ages 6-9)

Spilled Water

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.

Published: 2004,
Tags: Adolescence
Categories: AsiaAsia, ChinaAsia, China, FictionAsia, China, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

Yue Liang Wang Ji Le

Chinese-language only humorous graphic novel of cartoons about the moon.

Published: 1999,
Tags: cartoon, Humor, Language
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Taiwan

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