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Can I read Bitter Dumplings on EtoBox?
Bitter Dumplings by Lee, Jeanne M. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bitter Dumplings about?
A tasty, original story This striking picture book ends with a new beginning for three people who never expected to be friends an orphaned girl cast out by her siblings, a slave escaping from a mighty emperors ship, and a hunchbacked old woman known for the bitter-melon and shrimp dumplings she brings to market each day and for living in a haunted house at the edge of the marshes. As their hardship-filled paths cross, each of their lives begins to change for the better, in a moving affirmation of the power of compassion. Set long ago in a Chinese village by the sea, Jeanne M. Lees meticulously illustrated story has an extraordinary flavor all its own.
Who reads Bitter Dumplings?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lee, Jeanne M.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374399641
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Children'S, History
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