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J G Ballard''s Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill''s The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ...

Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow the Yangtze hundreds of miles upriver, travelling by Chinese junk and rogue steamer, through bandit and ghost haunted countryside - doggedly tracking Moonface as he spirits Charlie''s sister Fei off to his home village. Everything is in flux around them: civil war pulsing, with Nationalists, Communists and warlord bandits struggling for control. The river rises and falls, villages spring up and are gone again.

Ruby and Charlie brave a shipwreck and a gunbattle and then take a perilous cliff path to Moonface''s lair.



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Ruby is a wonderful character, brave and determined; the storytelling dramatic and perceptive, giving a real sense of place -- Sarah Brew * Parents In Touch *

Ghosts of Shanghai Shadow of the Yangtze

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    A Paperback / softback by Julian Sedgwick

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      Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/04/2016
      ISBN13: 9781444924497, 978-1444924497
      ISBN10: 1444924494

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      J G Ballard''s Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill''s The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ...

      Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow the Yangtze hundreds of miles upriver, travelling by Chinese junk and rogue steamer, through bandit and ghost haunted countryside - doggedly tracking Moonface as he spirits Charlie''s sister Fei off to his home village. Everything is in flux around them: civil war pulsing, with Nationalists, Communists and warlord bandits struggling for control. The river rises and falls, villages spring up and are gone again.

      Ruby and Charlie brave a shipwreck and a gunbattle and then take a perilous cliff path to Moonface''s lair.



      Trade Review
      Ruby is a wonderful character, brave and determined; the storytelling dramatic and perceptive, giving a real sense of place -- Sarah Brew * Parents In Touch *

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