Lizard's tale /
Chan, Weng Wai,
Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan. - 312 pages ; 20 cm.
It’s Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn’t know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor’s shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn’t know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili, a girl full of secrets and fighting skills? Can he trust her, or will she betray him in the end?
9781925603910 1925603911
World War, 1939-1945--Children's fiction.
Spies--Children's fiction.
Theft--Children's fiction.
Singapore--Children's fiction.
War fiction.
[Fic]
Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan. - 312 pages ; 20 cm.
It’s Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn’t know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor’s shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn’t know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili, a girl full of secrets and fighting skills? Can he trust her, or will she betray him in the end?
9781925603910 1925603911
World War, 1939-1945--Children's fiction.
Spies--Children's fiction.
Theft--Children's fiction.
Singapore--Children's fiction.
War fiction.
[Fic]