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The year of the Shanghai Shark / Mo Zhi Hong.
Van Pelt Library PR9570.S53 M6 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mo, Zhi Hong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage boys--China--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- China--Fiction.
- China.
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction, New Zealand.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North Shore, N.Z. : Penguin, 2008.
- Summary:
- The north-eastern Chinese city of Dalian is home to orphaned teenager Hai Long. In the year of the SARS epidemic, he and his friends live out their urban existence, going to school, navigating the malls and watching American basketball and Michael Jordan. And then there is Uncle, whose shadowy occupation exerts an irresistible pull on Hai Long's life. Suggested level: secondary.
- Notes:
- Novel for young adults.
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalist 2009
- Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Best First Book Winner 2009.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780143008934
- 0143008935
- OCLC:
- 228213589
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