sino-japanese war, 1937-1945

Yaya and an ill Tuduo are on the run with Chan, trying to reach Yaya's parents in Hong Kong. Chased by Zhu, pirates, and soldiers, they must rely on each other to survive. As Tuduo tries to recover, a betrayal separates all three of them from each other.

In war-torn Shanghai in 1937, young Yaya and Tuduo escape the gangster Zhu and try to make it to her parents in Hong Kong but they become stranded on a dangerous island. They meet a new friend, Chan, and try to escape.

Set in 1937 China, as Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University, entrusted with a priceless treasure, must navigate a world of danger, betrayal and love to keep a 500-year-old collection of myths and legends safe.

Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.

"This novel . . . takes place in a Japanese internment camp in China in WWII, where thirteen-year-old Gwen follows the Girl Guide code in order to survive"--Provided by publisher.

"... tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals were effectively paid mercenaries, secretly recruited by a mysterious shell company that the federal government had created to circumvent its official stance of non-intervention in the war. Drawn from across the armed services by the prospect of seeing the world and earning a good salary, they traveled to Burma under false identities in the late summer and fall of 1941 and began training there under ... general Claire Chennault"--Provided by publisher.

"While World War II is well known for genocide, the war itself eclipsed key events that preceded and contributed to the greater conflict ... explores the Nanjing massacre, a mass murder and rape committed by Japanese soldiers in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict would later merge into World War II itself."--Provided by publisher.

Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.

"Explores the Nanjing massacre, a mass murder and rape committed by Japanese soldiers in Chinaduring the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict would later merge into World War II itself"--Provided by publisher.

Documents the efforts of French Jesuit, Father Robert Jacquinot de Besange, who convinced Japanese and Chinese military leaders to establish a safe zone in the midst of the war and ultimately help to save the lives of more than half a million Chinese civilians over the course of the war.