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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes...
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When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Chapter 1: How to Get Superpowers by Reading Wikipedia -- Chapter 2: How Not to Win a Battle Using Soup -- Chapter 3: How Video Game Nerds Can Be Trounced With Ancient Chinese Military Tactics -- Chapter 4: How...
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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Chapter 1: How to Get Superpowers by Reading Wikipedia -- Chapter 2: How Not to Win a Battle Using Soup -- Chapter 3: How Video Game Nerds Can Be Trounced With Ancient Chinese Military Tactics -- Chapter 4: How the Creation of China Was Exactly Like American Idol -- Chapter 5: How to Get Rich and Famous by Renting Your Body to a Dead Emperor -- Chapter 6: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People -- Chapter 7: How the Qin State Unified China By Turning Itself into an MMO -- Chapter 8: How Chinese Sherlock Homes and Chinese Leeroy Jenkins Can Help a Museum Heist -- Chapter 9: How to Cope with Being a Supervillain's Henchboy -- Chapter 10: How a Leaf Can Return to Its Tree -- Chapter 11: How Your Ancestor Can Be a Bird -- Chapter 12: How Legendary Poets Duke It Out -- Chapter 13: How to Pull Off a Good Boy, Bad Emperor Routine By Yourself -- Chapter 14: How to Scam the Ancient Chinese Justice League -- Chapter 15: How to Turn the Tides. Literally. -- Chapter 16: How It Feels to Have an Easy Fight for Once -- Chapter 17: How to Slay Immortals By Becoming Underwater Darth Vader -- Chapter 18: How the Great Wall Can Be Appropriated as a Racetrack -- Chapter 19: How to Get What You Want at All Costs -- Chapter 20: How to Handle Ultimate Power -- Chapter 21: How to Be a Benevolent Gang Leader -- Chapter 22: How to Wake Qin Dynasty Romeo Back Up -- Chapter 23: How to Force Your Way Through Someone Else's Daddy Issues -- Chapter 24: How a New Emperor Is Born -- Chapter 25: How Everybody Sucks and Nothing's Over -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.
A tale of two mothers, one daughter and a fatherland on the brink of catastrophe Intro -- Praise for Dreams of Joy -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part One: The Tiger Leaps -- Joy: Life Savers -- Joy: Two Shadows Lengthening -- Joy: A...
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A tale of two mothers, one daughter and a fatherland on the brink of catastrophe Intro -- Praise for Dreams of Joy -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part One: The Tiger Leaps -- Joy: Life Savers -- Joy: Two Shadows Lengthening -- Joy: A Sprig Of Bamboo -- Pearl: A Widow Should . . . -- Pearl: Forever Beautiful -- Joy: Observing and Learning from Real Life -- Part Two: The Rabbit Dodges -- Joy: Standing Against The Wind And Waves -- Pearl: Dust and Memories -- Joy: Loyalty of Redness -- expertise of Brush -- Pearl: Scars on her Breast -- Pearl: The Sorrow of Life -- Joy: A Small Radish -- Pearl: Riding A Flowered Palanquin -- Part Three: The Dog Grins -- Pearl: A Smiling Face -- Pearl: A Perfect Circle -- Joy: Between The Yellow and the Green -- Joy: Glass Clothes -- Pearl: The Ladder of Life -- Joy: Launching a Sputnik -- Pearl: A Rose-Petal Cake -- Joy: Living an Abundant Year -- Pearl: A Brave Heart -- Joy: A Good Mother -- Part IV: The Dragon Rises -- Pearl: Separated By a Thread -- Joy: This is Joy -- Joy: The Heartbeat of the Artist -- Pearl: A Place of Memory -- Pearl: Fate Continues, Fortune Abounds -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Author -- Also by Lisa See -- Imprint
