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In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublaï Khan. He returned with stories that would take a lifetime to tell.
Featuring exotic creatures, strange customs, extraordinary legends, and political intrigues, The Travels of Marco Polo reveals the fantastical treasures of the East in the words of the legendary medieval explorer.
Conjuring up a forgotten world filled with mystery where wonder lurks around every...
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Hundreds of years ago, a web of trade routes connected east Asia with the European world. Traders traveled along this "silk road" buying and selling goods such as gold, ivory, perfume, and silk. On a spring day in ninth-century China, young Mei gives her father a small jade pebble to carry on his journey selling silk along the road. A Single Pebble follows that piece of jade as it travels from China through central Asia to Europe, from merchants...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.
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