Exploration into China
Wang Tao
Presents the political and cultural history of China from early human fossil remains to modern times. Includes a time line relating events in China to events in the rest of the world.
Read Time: ~5.3 hr
Reckless revolution
by Lynne Hansen (2007)
About this book
Twentieth-century teenager Mindy Gold, seventeenth-century minister Jonathan Hartthorne, and twenty-second-century "time cop" Jasper time travel to 1775 Philadelphia, where they face rabble-rousing Whigs, smallpox outbreaks, and carnivorous pigs as they search for an alien and its captive.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreReckless revolution Lead Character
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