Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan.

By:

Chan, Weng Wai [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2019Description: 312 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781925603910
1925603911

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

War fiction.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: 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?

List(s) this item appears in: Hāwera Reading Vine | Hāwera Reading Vine - Mystery Stories | Hāwera Reading Vine - Historical Fiction | Hāwera Reading Vine - New Zealand Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Junior Fiction	Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Fiction	CHAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	i2190892
Junior Fiction	Pātea LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Fiction	CHAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	i2199660
Junior Fiction	Stratford Children's	Children's Fiction	CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A00869726

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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?

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