Download or read book I Dug a Hole to China written by Diane Harding and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke decides to dig a hole to tunnel from his house in Australia through to China. Little does he know that someone else at the other end is thinking the same thing. A host of dangerous adventures follow with his new friend, usually involving being chased through a variety of Chinese landscapes and settings. Losing his route back to Australia due to a volcano, Luke learns a lot about China while escaping from angry warriors, thieves and dragons, hiding inside priceless antiques and becoming everything from a monkey to a kite. Eventually they realise they are in a race against time to put back something important in its rightful place, before certain disaster. Will they manage this without being caught, after all their mishaps? Although Luke has made a friend for life, they will need courage and initiative to get home in one piece.
Download or read book Digging a Hole to China written by Anita Gevaudan Byerly and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digging for China written by Richard Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy decides to dig a hole to China.
Download or read book Digging to China written by Donna Rawlins and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing her friend Marj, the elderly lady next door, speak wistfully of China, Alexis digs a hole all the way through the earth to that exotic country and brings back a postcard for Marj's birthday.
Download or read book I m Digging a Hole to China written by Isaac Christensen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems and drawings by Isaac, a child author who is 10 years old. Isaac came up with the ideas for each of the poems, wrote each of them independently and created all the drawings for this book with minimal input from his parents. His dad scanned the drawings into the computer and entered all the poems into this book with very little grammatical editing. Isaac chose the title and cover art. His parents added the final formalities of the book such as the parent review and the about the author page and published it using Lulu. Check it out. We think you will like it!: )
Download or read book Sam and Dave Dig a Hole written by Mac Barnett and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor. Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.
Download or read book Digging a Hole to China written by Curious Concoctions Books and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain digs his way around the world searching for China. Along the way, he meets and experiences different cultures.
Download or read book Digging a Hole to China written by Laima Vince and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIGGING A HOLE TO CHINA is part travel writing, part memoir. Each chapter can be read as an individual essay or as part of a narrative. In this book Laima Vince relocates to Hong Kong to teach at a Chinese international school. While she is in Hong Kong the Umbrella Revolution breaks out. Students and teachers at the school find themselves on opposite sides. Some support mainland China while others dream of universal suffrage and democracy for Hong Kong. While living and working in Hong Kong Laima begins to understand the complex society that is today's China. This book chronicles life in Hong Kong as the region transitions from a former colony of Great Britain into a quasi-autonomous city in China. Laima learns to grasp the cultural crossroads between East and West that is Hong Kong, and the mixture of the ancient and the modern that is Asia. She documents the diverse voices of contemporary Asia while traveling and exploring. Among the many people, whose lives she documents in this book, there is Michael, a mainland Chinese who grew up in an impovershed province of China and drew his community's discontent by learning English. Then there is Hans, a member of the Dusun Head Hunter's tribe of Borneo, who grew up in a traditional society in which his grandmother, a Baba Hasan, or medicine woman, could coax a breeze out of the sky. And there is Mariana, one of the last Macanese in Macau, a young archeologist striving to preserve her rapidly vanishing culture. During the two years chronicled in this book (2013 - 2015) Laima takes a 56-hour train ride from Guangzhou to Tibet; hikes through the rain forest with a descendant of Head Hunters; goes island hopping across the turquoise waters of the Philippines with three generations of a Filipino family in a fragile bamboo boat; together with her students builds a house from palm tree fronds in a Cambodian village; and stands with Hong Kong's student protestors as they politely request the Chinese government to respect their right to universal suffrage.
Download or read book Animal Antipodes written by Carly Allen-Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you dug a hole all the way to the other side of the earth, where would you be? What animals would you see?"--
Download or read book The Ants Dig to China written by Timothy R. Smith and published by Mackinac Island Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck Wilder and his animal friends investigate a huge pile of dirt that has appeared in the forest, blocking the area where all of the animal trails meet, and leading to animal road rage.
Download or read book The Porcelain Thief written by Huan Hsu and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle’s semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.
Download or read book How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World written by Faith McNulty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-03-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont] explode with color and action.’ —CS. Best Books of 1979 (SLJ) Children's Choices for 1980 (IRA/CBC) A Reading Rainbow Selection
Download or read book Digging to China written by James Dale Brown and published by Soho PressInc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences living in China while teaching English at a Chinese medical college
Download or read book The Hole to China written by Gary Kaschak and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Marty Kent, a shy, pudgy 12 year-old kid who not only started a hole to China, but dug a deeper one than any kid ever did.
Download or read book Winter Pasture written by Li Juan and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021. "Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir." —Smithsonian Magazine "Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her." —Laura Miller, Slate "Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle." —The New York Times Book Review Winner of the People's Literature Award, WINTER PASTURE has been a bestselling book in China for several years. Li Juan has been widely lauded in the international literary community for her unique contribution to the narrative non-fiction genre. WINTER PASTURE is her crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir. Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more. With a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as "sister-in-law." In bringing this faraway world to English language readers here for the first time, Li creates an intimate bond with the rugged people, the remote places and the nomadic lifestyle. In the signature style that made her an international sensation, Li Juan transcends the travel memoir genre to deliver an indelible and immersive reading experience on every page.
Download or read book EMIGRATING FROM CHINA TO THE UNITED STATES written by Yushi (Boni) Li and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional new second edition, the author has retained much of her earlier experiences when emigrating to the United States but adds depth and detail to the life events that have currently influenced her social values, attitudes, and behaviors. This is a supplementary textbook with the fundamental purpose of facilitating students in associating the understandings in their personal daily lives with larger social forces. The main discussion focuses on cross-cultural experiences and society with the understanding that time, society, and culture will always influence everyday lives. The following topics are featured: sociological theories and how different political and economic systems influence ways of thinking, everyday life, and social interaction with others; the importance of doing research projects, collecting data, and how to avoid common mistakes; the comparison between Chinese and American cultures, and cultural shock; how immigrants assimilate themselves into American society; deviant behavior that may be considered universal; comparison and evaluation of U.S. and Chinese social stratification; racial group issues; comparison of U.S. and Chinese sex and gender behaviors; different approaches to the importance of family in cultures; the influence of Confucius versus Christianity; population issues including family planning and abortion; and urbanization and its effect on social change. Replete with numerous illustrations, the author provides a background of Chinese history, culture, and current issues. The book is especially important in the study of history immigration, world cultures, current American immigration, and the socialization and assimilation by the dominant culture in a society. This book serves as a significant resource for the general study of sociology and social sciences at all levels.
Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by C J Barker and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.
