chinese language

An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City. Presented in Chinese.

Presents the story of a widow and the young family who moves in with her. Together they discover the first gift of Christmas and learn what Christmas is really all about. Text presented in Chinese.

This is a Chinese to English dictionary using pinyin characters and showing phonetic spelling in English, as well as the meaning of the term in English. Chinese characters are shown in the original complex form, as well as in the simplified form. Appendix tables cover Countries, regions, capitals and currencies; A brief Chinese chronology; A table of chemical elements; Units of weights and measures; The heavenly stems and earthly branches; and the twenty-four solar terms.

Contains words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese and English, with illustrations.

Jasmine's grandfather teaches her Chinese calligraphy by drawing and making up stories with her. Includes information about Chinese characters and a glossary of words in the story.

Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.