Crouching Tiger

Contributor(s): Compestine, Ying Chang (Author), Nascimbene, Yan (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9781536205602

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Binding Types:

Paperback

$8.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$21.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$20.74 (100+ copies: $19.99)

List/retail price:

$8.99

Pub Date: September 3, 2019

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2019297968

Lexile Code: 0610

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 06 to 09

Physical Info: 0.10" H x 9.90" L x 8.40" W ( 0.45 lbs) 40 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000148326 ( Crouching Tiger)

Reading level: 3.40

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him.

Review Quotes: Poignant but not treacly, CROUCHING TIGER deals with an immigrant child's conflicting emotions toward a grandparent from the old country...Nascimbene's delicate ink and watercolor illustrations are exquisite.
--The New York Times

The beauty Nascimbene discovers in Ming Da's suburban world-the leaves that fall around Ming Da as he practices, parade-goers scattered like confetti, the stars that accompany Ming Da and Grandpa on the way home-echoes the beauty Ming Da eventually finds in Grandpa's tai chi poses. Readers will warm to the duo's growing friendship and the gifts that come as Ming Da allows himself to enter Grandpa's world.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)