LibGuides: YCIS Pudong Library: Featured books: Secondary books

Year 7-10

A young girl, Minli, sets off on a journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer.

The moon is missing from the remote Village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to notice. But one day, a mysterious lady arrives at the Inn with the gift of storytelling, and slowly transforms the villagers and Rendi himself. As she tells more stories and the days pass in the Village of Clear Sky, Rendi begins to realize that perhaps it is his own story that holds the answers to all those questions.

In a world of dragons, song spells, pipers and battles...
Three accidental heroes versus one legendary villain... an epic adventure is born.

A thrilling piece of historical fiction.Told in Tilly's unique voice, it is a tale of love and loss, and how forgiveness is the key to recovery.
A Ukrainian Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, finds unlikely help from two rare horses.
Two brothers, one family, and an unexpected secret revealed on the cold night of winter. Written by Newbery gold medal author of Hatchet and Brian’s Winter.
Told in graphic-novel form, White Bird is the story of a young Jewish girl hidden away by a family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. . Author of Wonder, R.J. Palacio expands on the character of Grandmère, Julian's grandmother in Wonder. Read and be dazzled by the story, it’s moral and the illustrations, done by the author herself.
The concept of fake news and the media is discussed as part of this series called ‘What's the Issue?’ The book reviews what is at stake when we think about fake news, with the aim of explaining this difficult subject and provide them with the tools to inform their own opinions on the issue.

Year 11+

A story that takes the reader back to Shanghai in the 1920s, through World War II, and events that led to the main character's arrival in America in 1949. The story is one of innocence and its loss, tragedy and survival and the enduring qualities of hope, love and friendship.

A piece of historical fiction that transports the reader to Shanghai of a hundred years back. A story witnessed through the eyes of a woman forced into a life not of her choosing and driven to seek revenge.

Nineteen-year-old Joy has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village, where families live in crowded huts and eke out a meagre existence from the soil. Joy must rely on her skill as a painter and her aunt must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety.

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.
Childhood best friends who grew apart after years of seeing one another only during Christmas break, begin a relationship at age seventeen, but destructive choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
Take a look at these two graphic versions of the New York Times bestselling books of the same name.
In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his book, the story of humankind’s creation and evolution is told. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas.
Volume 2 of Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Pillars of Civilization explores a crucial chapter in human development: the Agricultural Revolution. This is the story of how wheat took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, plague, famine, and inequality became an intractable feature of the human condition.

YCIS Pudong Library: Featured books: Secondary books

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