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Blossom on the Run: A Han dynasty Adventure
Contributor(s): Nylan, Michael (Author), Litz, Robert J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1603770925     ISBN-13: 9781603770927
Publisher: Metron Publications
OUR PRICE: $13.29  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Asia
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.88 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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Publisher Description:
This is Volume One of a planned trilogy. One morning in Han dynasty China (206 BC - 220 AD), a girl of eleven is waking up... The day Meike grew up started out like most. She woke to the songs of mockingbirds in the camellia tree. She could hear Ahmei, the cook, in the forecourt bang a pot over the stove. She could smell smoke from Ahmei's fire and from a hundred others in their crowded district. If she concentrated, she could smell other things too - earth still damp from last night's rain, peppers soaking in a vat, and something she couldn't quite name riding the breeze that stirred the bamboo in the courtyard and trickled in through her latticed window. The first light that peeked over the roof-tiles of the east wing of the family compound made the soft green of the spring bamboo almost glow. A softer light caressed the petals of the plum blossom sprig in the vase on the table beneath her window. Her name, Meike, with its soft "may" and harder "kuh," meant Plum Blossom - soft petals, hard branch - and every Spring, on Meike's birthday, her mother placed a cutting in her room. In a few minutes, Ahmei would call her name, then call again when Meike didn't hop out of bed as ordered. She knew that if she waited, her father would creep in, slowly lift her cover, then grab her belly in a tickling claw. But then, all of a sudden, she had this unsettling feeling that today would be different.
 
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