Shaolin burning / Ant Sang.
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins, 2011.Description: 189 pages : color ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781869508135 (pbk.)
- 1869508130 (pbk.)
- Martial arts -- Teen fiction
- Revenge -- Teen fiction
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Martial arts fiction
- New Zealand fiction -- 21st century
- Revenge -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Teen fiction
- Young adult fiction, New Zealand
- Revenge -- Young adult fiction
- Martial arts -- Young adult fiction
- China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 Fiction
- New Zealand fiction 21st century
- Martial arts -- Fiction
- Kung fu -- Fiction
- Buddhism -- Fiction
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Fiction
- China -- Young adult fiction
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Teen fiction
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Fiction -- 21st century
- New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Finalist 2012.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Teenage Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Teenage Grafix | Teenage Grafix | GRAFIX | 1 | Available | T00526858 | ||
Teenage Fiction | Mobile Library Teenage Grafix | Teenage Grafix | GRAFIX | 3 | Available | T00526873 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Shaolin Burning' is a graphic novel about two very different kung-fu fighters, whose lives intersect as they are offered self-discovery through the wisdom of martial arts, in a masterful interweaving of kung-fu myths and legends.
Graphic novel for young adults.
Finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012.
Graphic novel set in Qing dynasty, China. -When violence and terror slash scarlet claws through mortal lives, they leave death, ashes and an aching thirst for revenge. In ancient China, martial arts have been outlawed. When the Qing Emperor's army attacks the dissident monks of the Shaolin Temple, only five escape the resulting inferno. The fugitives flee, vowing to spread their forbidden knowledge. One survivor, Monk Who Doubts, plans bloody revenge, while another, the nun Ng Mui, raises an orphaned girl child. By the time Deadly Plum Blossom is in her teens, she is lethal. Shaolin Burning is a graphic novel about two very different kung-fu fighters, whose lives intersect as they are offered self-discovery through the wisdom of martial arts, in a masterful interweaving of kung-fu myths and legends.
After the Shaolin Temple is destroyed by the Emperor's army, five elders escape and go into hiding in order to continue spreading the forbidden knowledge of kung fu. A sixth monk, Monk Who Doubts, escapes too, but turns his back on the Buddhist path and instead persues bloody revenge. His path intersects with that of Deadly Plum Blossom, a girl abandoned at birth and raised by a Shaolin nun who trains her in a new fighting style. Set in Qing dynasty, China. In graphic novel format. Suggested level: secondary.
Graphic novel adult
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Finalist 2012.
Suitable 8 - 12 Years
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Finalist - 2012
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