A Girl and Her Panda
A Girl and Her Panda

Author: Zoey Gong

Publisher: Red Empress Publishing

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Lihua never could have imagined that the birth of a little brother would end the life she knew. Raised in a poor country village, Lihua prayed her parents would have a son to bring peace and balance to the family. But she did not foresee how living in such poverty would force her parents to face a terrible choice they once made that would now cost Lihua everything. Suddenly told to leave her home, Lihua begins a treacherous journey alone. After being attacked on the road the first day, an unlikely hero comes to her aid: a panda she decides to call Panpan. Bound together for love and survival, Lihua and Panpan travel together through the mountains and forest of western China as Lihua struggles to find her new place in the world. A Girl and her Panda is part the Animal Companion series, but each book is a stand-alone novel with new characters and adventures.

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda

Author: Alicia Potter

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0375984682

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In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda bear. Not many people in the world had. But soon the young Mrs. Harkness would inherit an expedition from her explorer husband: the hunt for a panda. She knew that bringing back a panda would be hard. Impossible, even. But she intended to try. So she went to China, where she found a guide, built traps, gathered supplies, and had explorers' clothes made—unheard of for a woman in those days. Then she set out up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness. What she discovered would awe America: an adorable baby panda she named Su Lin, which means "a little bit of something very cute." With breathtaking illustrations from Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet, this little-known true story shares the tale of an adventurous woman who was bold and brave—and the unforgettable journey that helped shape American attitudes toward wildlife.

Like the Red Panda
Like the Red Panda

Author: Andrea Seigel

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780151010394

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Stella is 17, attractive, smart, deeply alienated and unable to face life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was 11, she has lived with foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, repeatedly attempts suicide in his retirement home.Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it, planting clues for the act she's about to commit. With remarkable wit, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a philosophical inquiry.

American Panda
American Panda

Author: Gloria Chao

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1481499114

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“Weepingly funny.” —The Wall Street Journal “Delightful.” —BuzzFeed “Charmed my socks off.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitoland Four starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate. At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth—that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese. But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels? From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt tale of how, unlike the panda, life isn’t always so black and white.

A Girl and Her Tiger
A Girl and Her Tiger

Author: Zoey Gong

Publisher: Red Empress Publishing

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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She didn’t plan on becoming a rebel… After watching her parents serve in British households for her whole life, Priya grew to despise every aspect of British colonialism. After an introduction to a British family in an attempt to secure a servant position of her own ends in disaster, Priya runs away to try and find a better life. But she doesn’t get far. Alone on the streets of Bombay, Priya is kidnapped and taken captive aboard a smuggler’s ship bound for the slave markets of the Americas. And in the cage next to her – is a ferocious mama tiger called Nabhitha! When Priya and the tiger see a chance for escape, will Priya dare to take it? Or will she end up the tiger’s dinner? Follow Priya and Nabhitha on a journey of courage and second chances. A Girl and her Tiger is the third book in the Animal Companion Series, but each book is a stand-alone novel with new characters and adventures.

When I Draw a Panda
When I Draw a Panda

Author: Amy June Bates

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1481451480

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“This amusing picture book encourages imagination and individuality.” —Booklist From the acclaimed author and illustrator of The Big Umbrella comes a delightful celebration of creativity and gumption about a girl and her panda that’s Calvin and Hobbes meets If You Give a Mouse a Cookie! Sometimes when they say to draw a perfect circle, mine turn out a little wonky. I can draw a perfect fluffy cloud, a perfect scoop of ice cream, and a perfect flat tire. So when I draw a panda, I keep drawing more and more not-perfect circles until I see a panda. Then I step back and think, Does it need something else? He probably needs a hat, and then he is my panda. When a girl draws a panda, it comes to life and helps her embrace her own creativity and unique way of seeing the world.

Adopted They Come With Love
Adopted They Come With Love

Author: John T. Strausser

Publisher: Infinity Publishing

Published: 2006-06

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 0741433400

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Two little girls, the good and the bad, their looking out for each other in all places and experiences of life. It's all true, and maybe it happened to you.

The Ballad of St. Katherine
The Ballad of St. Katherine

Author: Norman Simon

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 149174958X

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Katherine is a strange Bronx girl who "hears" the voices of the constellations. Abetted by a building super and a disgraced NASA administrator, she becomes a revered faith healer, only to be betrayed by her inner voice, when it tells her to have a child. Set in eras ranging from the sixties to the near future, Simon's stories blend sexual tension, religious feeling, intellect and madness into a compelling brew. In a senior-living facility, a man plots murder with a woman he believes to be a famous author. A philosophy professor and her boyfriend contemplate suicide. Their every move followed by cameras, the contestants in a reality show need to complete a "main task," but no one knows what it is. After years on the run from the F.B.I., a bank robber enters a monastery, while his lover/accomplice stews in boredom. In the words of one of Simon's characters: "The sacred and the profane lie close together, separated by the thinnest membrane, almost nothing." Breeching this boundary, The Ballad of St. Katherine presents a fascinating set of personalities, some slain by their obsessions, others able to come to terms with their lives, or their deaths.

Flame-Girl
Flame-Girl

Author: Laura-Louise Slattery

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1479722480

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CHEERLEADER BY DAY. SUPERHERO BY NIGHT. When ordinary sixteen-year-old teenager, Sunny Andrews, is forced to move to Saltville in California, after her mother's untimely death, her life changes forever. After receiving mysterious fire powers from an ancient red-coloured rock, she discovers her life will never be the same again. As violent criminals and serial killers take refuge in Saltville, Sunny is driven to use her powers to fight crime. She dons a costume and becomes the crime-fighting acrobatic superhero known as Flame-Girl', abolishing the raging corruption that inhabits the town. When a new super villain arrives, Sunny must trust in all her power and strength to stop him before its too late ..

Girls of Fate and Fury
Girls of Fate and Fury

Author: Natasha Ngan

Publisher: Jimmy Patterson

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0316528773

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New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan delivers a stunningly beautiful, heartbreaking finale to the epic Girls of Paper and Fire series. "Don't struggle, Lei-zhi. It's time to take you back to the Hidden Palce. You're going home." The final pages of Girls of Storm and Shadow brought a jaw-dropping conclusion that had the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in uncertainty. But one thing was certain - the Hidden Palace was the last place that Lei would ever consider home. The trauma and tragedy she suffered behind those opulent walls would plague her forever. She could not be trapped there with the sadistic king again, especially without Wren... The last Lei saw of the girl she loved, Wren was fighting an army of soldiers in a furious battle to the death. With the two girls torn apart and each in terrorizing peril, will they find each other again or have their destinies diverged forever? Girls of Fate and Fury is the epic conclusion to the "glittering" and "adrenaline-soaked" series by Natasha Ngan, hailed as "a stunning, new talent" for her "beautiful, lush, lyrical" writing.