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1 online resource (113 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Throwing a Grape""; ""The Two Houses""; ""James and Lily Arrive""; ""The Cemetery Tower""; ""Saving the Babies""; ""Building the Orphanage""; ""Cutwork Embroidery""; ""Lily Finds Buyers""; ""The Four Siblings""; ""James Jr. Brings Back a Bride""; ""Life in Cheefoo""; ""My Mother in the Garden""; ""My Father at the Piano""; ""The Musical""; ""The American Navy Visits""; ""The Drowned Man""; ""The Japanese Army Arrives""; ""The Japanese Commandant""; ""The Road Blockades""; ""The Night Runners""; ""The Chinese Scrolls"" |
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""The Costume Ball""""At the Dock""; ""USS President Coolidge""; ""My Father Joins the British Army""; ""White Houses and Green Lawns""; ""Bad Nights in Grand Forks""; ""The Wrong Accent""; ""The Beautiful House""; ""My Cousin Alan""; ""The Moment on the Reef""; ""The Russian Artist""; ""Quartered in a Buddhist Temple""; ""Leaving Salt Spring""; ""The Vaulting Horse""; ""Weekends with Rose""; ""My Father Is Reassigned""; ""Leaving New York""; ""The Bombing Scare""; ""The Garden on Malabar Hill""; ""The Upper Bunk""; ""The Houseboat""; ""Be a Man!""; ""Calisthenics""; ""The Best Friend"" |
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""Getting the News""""General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart""; ""The Flight""; ""The Crazy City""; ""My Mother�s Admirers""; ""Across the River""; ""Mr. Ryan""; ""On the USS Breckenridge""; ""All the Rest, Very Briefly""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
| Summary |
Illustrator James McMullan discusses how his early childhood in China and his wartime journeys with his mother influenced his life and career. |
| Audience |
NC 1280 Lexile. |
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NC1280L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.7 3 164555 |
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Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.7 3 164555 |
| Summary |
The author recounts in more than fifty short essays and evocative illustrations how his early childhood in China and wartime journeys with his mother influenced his life and career. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
McMullan, James, 1934- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
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McMullan, James, 1934-
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McMullan, James, 1934- |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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1937-1945 |
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Illustrators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Children of missionaries -- China -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American -- Juvenile literature.
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Illustrators -- Biography.
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Children of missionaries -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Children of missionaries. |
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Illustrators. |
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China -- History -- 1937-1945 -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.
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McMullan, James, 1934- -- Childhood and youth.
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Illustrators.
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Children of missionaries.
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China -- History -- 1937-1945 -- Anecdotes.
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China. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Anecdotes.
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Biography.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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Personal narratives American.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): McMullan, James, 1934- Leaving China Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2014 9781616202552 (DLC) 2013035241 (OCoLC)855043127 |
| ISBN |
9781616204013 : $19.95 |
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161620401X : $19.95 |
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