Del Norte Public Library

The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.

A book about the Chinese revolution.

It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.
Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning...

Photographed by 90 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, April 15, 1989

Set in 1920s Republican China, amid chaos created by feuding warlords the monks of the Shaolin Temple try to keep the people fed. A defeated warrior takes refuge with the monks, and tries to protect them when the temple is attacked by his former prote´ge´.