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1) Parachutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
2) Ruse
Author
Series
Want volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu are still recovering from the aftermath of bombing Jin Corp headquarters. But Jin, the ruthless billionaire and Daiyu's father, is out for blood. When Jin has Jany murdered and steals the tech she had refused to sell him, Lingyi is the only one who...
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Foul lady Fortune volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932 Shanghai, exposed national spy Rosalind Lang must rescue fellow spy, Orion, whose memories of Rosalind were wiped, and find a cure to a dangerous chemical weapon before it lands in the hand of foreign invaders.
Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course...
5) Snake Bite
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes: the legend begins volume 5
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Sherlock Holmes the legend begins volume 5
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Sherlock Holmes the legend begins volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When young Sherlock Holmes is kidnapped and taken to China, he begins investigating the poisonings of three men in different parts of Shanghai who were bitten by the same snake, and uncovers a plot to destroy an American warship.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.--
Author
Series
G.I. dogs volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.
8) Flying light
Author
Publisher
Starfish Bay
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In a wordless picture book, a man and his strange pet lizard attempt to lure luminous flying creatures to their mystical world.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ning doesn't know where she belongs. The daughter of a Chinese woman and American man, Ning doesn't fit in in 1870s Shanghai, where her American features and unbound feet make her stand out. When she receives news that her father will be visiting from America, Ning excitedly hopes that her parents will become a family. Instead, she learns that her father is taking her back with him to America. Ning wonders if being American will finally...