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William S. and the great escape
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to \"help\" them.
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Dynasty Saga of colorful lives, lingerie and `LoSang' ON GOLD MOUNTAIN: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family, By Lisa See (St. Martin's Press: $24.95; 381 pp.)
When Lisa See, at the request of her great aunt, Sissee See Leong, embarked on the task of recording her family's history, she was facing an enormous undertaking. The West Coast columnist for Publishers Weekly, See spent five years interviewing nearly 100 relatives and studying letters and documents gleaned from family sources, as well as from newspaper and magazine files, the National Archives and the Immigration Office. Not only would it be necessary to deal with a great number of individuals, and a time span of over 100 years, but also with unique crosscurrents of cultural and ethnic diversity. It is this diversity that sets See's saga apart from other excellent family histories of Asian immigrants. Like other chronicles by such justly acclaimed writers as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, See's story deal's with the difficult lives of her Chinese ancestors in their native country as well as the hardships, persecution and discrimination they faced on their arrival in \"Gold Mountain,\" the United States of America. The reader first becomes acquainted with a poor dealer in herbs and other traditional Chinese medications, who during a time of great unrest and deprivation in China, sets out for the \"Gold Mountain\" with two of his four sons. Fong Dun Shung, See's great-great-grandfather arrived in California in 1867, where he continued his work as an herbalist while two of his sons joined the thousands of Chinese men who labored to build the Central Pacific railroad. But it was Fong Dun Shung's fourth son, Fong See who, setting out from China in 1871 to find his long absent father, eventually became the patriarch of a remarkable Asian/American dynasty. Fong See, See's great-grandfather, must have been a man of enormous intelligence, business acumen and determination. Having arrived in Sacramento as a 14-year-old, he soon set himself up in business, at first selling merchandise from door to door and then, by the late 1870s, as a successful manufacturer of underwear for brothels. In 1894 Fong See hired an intelligent and courageous young Caucasian woman, Letticie (Ticie) Pruett, as saleswoman and bookkeeper and a few years later in defiance of law and custom they were married. Soon afterward Fong See moved his business from Sacramento to Los Angeles where he began the importation of Chinese antiques and artifacts, an enterprise that was to make him not only wealthy, but also a legendary figure in the burgeoning City of the Angels.
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William's midsummer dreams
Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Dynasty
How does a penniless 14-year-old Chinese immigrant arriving alone in the alien and hostile world of California in the 1870s become a highly successful business man, the friend and confidant of famous Hollywood personalities, and the patriarch of a large...
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The famous Stanley kidnapping case
Kidnappers in Italy have their hands full when the captive American children advise them on running a better kidnapping and on proper nutrition.
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To be a 'storyteller.'
The sobriquet \"storyteller\" invokes some particularly poignant and powerful memories of childhood habits and idiosyncrasies for one writer of fiction for young people. Storytelling writing techniques are discussed.
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Blair's nightmare
\"A giant Irish wolfhound might be the dog of David's dreams in the third book in the Stanley Family series, a companion to The Headless Cupid, from three-time Newbery Honor winner Zipha Keatley Snyder. With five children, a raven, and a pet turkey named King Tut, the Stanley house is full-to-bursting. But David desperately wants a dog--even though his dad has forbidden another pet. So when Blair begins sleepwalking and having dreams of an enormous dog that comes to the house every night, David assumes Blair just wants a dog too. But what if Blair's Nightmare, as the kids quickly name the dog, isn't only a dream? Is Nightmare the dog they've always wanted? And how can the kids keep him--without letting their parents know?\"--Publisher's web site.
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Jessica--the girl who thought she was a witch
Listening to her mother talking on the telephone, Jessica heard something about \"special schools for children with that kind of problem,\" and \"only as a last resort.\" Jessica was a disturbed and lonely child...
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