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Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

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Groundwood Books Ltd, Sep 1, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 263 pages
From beloved author and master storyteller Katherine Paterson comes a reissued historical novel of intrigue, war, and love, set against the Taiping Rebellion. Wang Lee is a young peasant boy, caught up in a secret group dedicated to overthrowing the hated Manchu emperor of China. Wang Lee faces a tough challenge: he must learn to be a soldier and kill for his cause. As the battles rage on, Wang Lee finds himself surrounded by a shifting world — women who show their strength against all odds, and peasants transforming into a noble army. With her signature grace, style, and compassion, Paterson has created an epic tale of 19th-century China, full of adventure, insight, and hope.
  

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Review: Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

User Review  - Tom - Goodreads

I was really excited to read this book once I found out it was written by the author of The Bridge to Terabitha. While there are some parallels, the two are not very similar. I liked this one for the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Chance Jimenez - Goodreads

Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom was very hard to understand for me to read. It was pretty boring. Anyways this book is about a 15 year old chines boy named Wang Lee. He gets kidnapped and sold into ... Read full review

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Contents

A Note to the Reader
10
Hunan 1850
13
To Kweilin
30
The Young Master
39
The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace
46
Mei Lins Story
57
Lately the Winds Have Greatly Changed
67
Chintien
79
The Destruction of Chuanchou
154
Sounds of Mourning
173
Homecoming
181
Spy in Changsha
191
Days of Testing
203
Kitchen Maid in the House of Sung
215
From Changsha to Nanking
231
Pilgrim to the Celestial City
241

To the Aid of the Kings
96
The New Age
108
Soldier in the Heavenly Army
119
Horsewomen of God
129
Shen
138
Seed Rice
250
Hunan 1864
262
Acknowledgments and Permissions
264
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Katherine Paterson, winner of the two most prestigious international prizes for children — the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the ALMA Prize — was born in China to missionary parents and spent her early childhood there. She has written a great number of award-winning books for children, including Bridge to Terabithiaand Jacob Have I Loved, which won the Newberry Medal. When it was first published in 1983, Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdomwon the Parents' Choice Award and was named the NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies as well as one of the Child Study Association's Children's Books of the year. Her most recent book is Bread and Roses, Too. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont.

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