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Shanghai Shadows

Shanghai Shadows

Shanghai Shadows
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Shanghai Shadows Paperback - 2015

by Ruby, Lois

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  • Title Shanghai Shadows
  • Author Ruby, Lois
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Open Road Integrated Media LLC
  • Publication date 2015-11-10
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1504028023.G
  • ISBN 9781504028028 / 1504028023
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.54 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.37 cm)
  • Age range 12 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 13
  • Reading level 830
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive

Throughout tomboy Ilse's childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse's father cannot find work--but Ilse is enchanted by the city's international flavor. In Shanghai's shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime.

When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.

About the author

Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriam's Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.
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