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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he'd become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, and poetry, with his students. Confucius wanted to make sure that everyone in China had access to an education and devoted his whole life to learning and teaching so he could transform and improve society. His lessons--now...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
This course provides a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. It begins with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ends with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
12) Chinese New Year
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chinese New Year is a spring festival that happens in January or February. Chinese people come together with their families and friends to celebrate the start of the new year. Learn more about the history and traditions of this fascinating celebration in the Festivals around the World series.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing unprecedented about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends. The Cold War started long before 1945....
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Qiaofei is a relic expert with a gritty past. When his mentor's daughter is held hostage over a map with a deadly history, the rugged warrior whips into action! Chaos erupts as he swoops in to the rescue and scours the sands for legendary riches buried deep in China's northwest desert. Chased down by the shadowy Sandstorm Legion and challenged by countless greedy, bloodthirsty foes, Qiaofei faces danger at every turn to find the tomb - but some treasures...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds ... This is the terrifying story of what...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein chose to invade Kuwait, China cracked down on its own pro-democracy protesters, and regimes...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi's club once again the hottest spot...
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