Author: Steve Heron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925227673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
After she is set a challenge to test her wisdom, Ling Li returns from the village marketplace with only a lantern to light her way. How will she prove herself to her father? Ling Li's Lantern is a heart-warming story of compassion, kindness and the true nature of wisdom.
Ling Li's Lantern
Author: Steve Heron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925227673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
After she is set a challenge to test her wisdom, Ling Li returns from the village marketplace with only a lantern to light her way. How will she prove herself to her father? Ling Li's Lantern is a heart-warming story of compassion, kindness and the true nature of wisdom.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925227673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
After she is set a challenge to test her wisdom, Ling Li returns from the village marketplace with only a lantern to light her way. How will she prove herself to her father? Ling Li's Lantern is a heart-warming story of compassion, kindness and the true nature of wisdom.
Lin Yi's Lantern
Author: Brenda Willaims
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856803
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Meet Lin Yi — a little boy with a big heart and a talent for bargaining. Tonight is the moon festival and he wants nothing more than a red rabbit lantern; but first he must buy the things his mother needs at the market. This heartwarming story shows the rewards of putting others first, and includes educational notes at the end about the Chinese moon festival, life in rural China, and the legend of the moon fairy.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856803
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Meet Lin Yi — a little boy with a big heart and a talent for bargaining. Tonight is the moon festival and he wants nothing more than a red rabbit lantern; but first he must buy the things his mother needs at the market. This heartwarming story shows the rewards of putting others first, and includes educational notes at the end about the Chinese moon festival, life in rural China, and the legend of the moon fairy.
The Bradys and the Hip Sing Ling; Or, After the Chinese Free Masons
Author:
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The New Metropolitan
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ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Metropolitan
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Desk Book
Author: Philippines. Bureau of Printing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Metropolitan Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the Church and Parish of St. Laurence, Thanet, in the County of Kent
Author: Charles Cotton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thanet (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Thanet (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Wind that Tramps the World
Author: Frank Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
On Gold Mountain
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099409823
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099409823
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.