Targeted Age Group:: Grades 2-5 Squirt doesn't believe Bubba can dig a hole to China. But when the hole swallows them, the kids find themselves in Xi'an, China, surrounded by Terracotta Warriors. It gets worse when the ghost of the first emperor of China appears. He tells them they can't go home until they find his missing pi. The kids don't know where to begin until they meet a girl and her grandmother who promise to help find the pendant. Soon the realize they are being followed. And they … [Read more...] about Bubba and Squirt’s Big Dig to China by Sherry Ellis
Empress Wu Zetian by Laurel A. Rockefeller
Targeted Age Group:: 10-16 years old Travel back in time over one thousand years and meet the first and only female emperor of China. Born Wu Zhao and given the reign title "Zetian" just weeks before her death in 705 CE, she was the unwanted daughter of Chancellor Wu Shihuo -- too bright, too educated, and too politically focused to make a good wife according to contemporary interpretations of the Analects of Confucius. Can it be any wonder that to this day she remains the most hated woman … [Read more...] about Empress Wu Zetian by Laurel A. Rockefeller
