Download or read book Daughter of the Bamboo Forest written by Sheng-Shih Lin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the bamboo forest, seven-year-old Little Jade, still dressed in red silk after her father's recent wedding, wonders whether she will ever meet her real mother. DAUGHTER OF THE BAMBOO FOREST is a story set in war-torn, post-revolutionary China during the 1940s. From age seven to twelve, Little Jade longs for the attention of an opium-addicted father and clashes with a desperate, resentful stepmother. The young girl is inadvertently swept by the tides of history, encountering a plague that decimated a village, Catholic nuns in a convent school, and the fabled dragon king along the way.--from the publisher.

Download or read book So Far from the Bamboo Grove written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Download or read book Pandas written by Keith Laidler and published by Bbc Publications. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the giant panda and the red panda, discussing their habits and behavior, their life in remote parts of China, and the animals with whom they share the bamboo forests

Download or read book The Boy Who Grew a Forest written by Sophia Gholz and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.

Download or read book Japanese Fairy Tales written by Yei Theodora Ozaki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.... In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority...

Download or read book Bamboo Kingdom 1 Creatures of the Flood written by Erin Hunter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One kingdom. Three worlds. An all-new series packed with high-stakes adventures from bestselling Warriors author Erin Hunter, perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Endling. The pandas of the Bamboo Kingdom have never forgotten the great flood that ended the peaceful life they’d always known. But for three young creatures born that day, the flood marks not an end, but a beginning—the beginning of their struggles to find a place in very different worlds. Leaf, raised in the sparse Northern Forest, works tirelessly to help her family find bamboo to eat; Rain, hot-tempered, refuses to accept a suspicious new leader in her Southern Forest community; and Ghost, clumsy and uncoordinated, worries he’ll never fit in with his hunter family in the mountains. None of them know that the others are out there, but thanks to a mysterious tiger that’s been threatening the Kingdom, they will soon find each other—and fulfill a prophecy that had been made long before they were born. This first book of a thrilling new animal adventure series from Erin Hunter is sure to enthrall readers of her other bestselling series. Fans will love having a new universe to immerse themselves in!

Download or read book Legitimate Daughter s Transmigration written by Da KeKe and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genius technology woman brought the system over the handsome brother comes to support me the king of assassins was used as a bodyguard destroying the marriage contract torturing the scum of a man and being so elegant and unrestrained.

Download or read book Innocent Daughter written by Yu Xiaoqi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl who was born to be abandoned by her parents, suffering all kinds of hardships. She would do everything she could to find her twin sister, Yu Xiaoyu. When their parents finally took them back, they thought it was a good day to be taken back by their parents. She didn't think that there would be a bigger scheme waiting for them. She tried her best to survive and protect her little sister, Xiao Yu. Is the appearance of a high school teacher, bringing sunshine, a new round of nightmares or redemption?

Download or read book Through the Bamboo written by Andrea Mapili and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Picking Bones from Ash written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mount Doom. In sharp, lush prose, Picking Bones from Ash - by Marie Mutsuki Mockett - examines the power and limitations of female talent in our globalized world.

Download or read book Pip and the Bamboo Path written by Jesse Hodgson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeward Bound meets Finding Nemo in this heartfelt tale about family, community and survival, featuring the world's most adorable endangered animal: the red panda. In the great forested heights of the Himalayas, many species live peacefully, but their lives are changing forever as humans cut down the trees that they call home. When Pip and her mother realize they are no longer safe in their familiar forest, the two red pandas embark on a journey to find the Bamboo Path, which should lead them to a new home. But the long road ahead is full of unfamiliar places, hidden dangers, and something neither Pip, nor her mother, has ever seen before--a bustling city. This story is a charming tale of perseverance, which also highlights the plight of the endangered red pandas, who are losing their homes to deforestation.

Download or read book Legitimate Daughter Never Be Concubine written by Miao XingRen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once it was an aerial disaster for the universe, Su Jinyue, as one of the outstanding Businesswoman of the thirty-first century, became the richest man in the Direct Daughter, whose father was not in pain but was also afraid of being forced to jump into the lake to commit suicide.Daddy not in pain? Little Sister Shu's framing? Abandoned Scumbag? Su Jinyue expressed that this was none of his business! Their grandma would make them kneel down one by one and call them 'great king'.However... That prince, you wait!You look like my future husband. Can you marry me? The kind that can give birth!

Download or read book The Story of Illegitimate Daughter written by Chen Ling and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was an unwelcome Second Miss. His mother had died when she gave birth to him. Be bullied by female patriarch and elder sister. Long years of bullying, after meeting someone. She wanted to fight back, one by one. He sent each of them to the eighteenth level of hell.

Download or read book Bamboo Valley written by Ann Whitehead Nagda and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panda encounters danger as he leaves his Chinese bamboo forest in search of a new home.

Download or read book Ghost Hunting System written by Bei Huan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No wonder she said that she just wanted to use this Demon Catcher APP to earn some extra money and fill her stomach. She didn't want to be a Demon Catcher!During the Qing Dynasty's Jiaqing era, he brought along the system to catch demons and ascended to the peak. He became a top Demon Catcher and returned home in glory! However... Why did you come with me?

Download or read book Journey to the West Six Ear Macaque written by Bai Di and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I heard that everyone has a Sun Wukong in their heart.Actually, the Six-Eared Macaque also had Sun Wukong in its heart.But the Three Realms was so vast, only the Wukong in his heart was so vast that neither the heavens nor the earth could tolerate it.

Download or read book Daughter Of Rebellious Minister written by Huo YueWuBian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her previous life, she was a female bandit who roamed the martial arts world endlessly. She flew from the roof to the walls, and she was proficient in swordplay.Unfortunately, birds die for food and men die for money.After her rebirth, she became the imperial concubine. Although she looked like a pitiful beauty to me, with her soft body that could easily topple others, she was not taken seriously.However, it didn't matter. She didn't care about the emperor at all. She cared about him ... Hehehe, of course it's the palace's gold and silver treasure!However, it wasn't long before that man broke all her plans.... ....Advertisement Thief girl?What a perfect match, a match made between a god and a deity!