Author: Iris Chang
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: silkworm, thread
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0465006787
ISBN-13: 9780465006786

The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became—to America’s continuing chagrin—the father of the Chinese missile program.

Author: Lily Toy Hong
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Keywords: silkworm, empress
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0807520098
ISBN-13: 9780807520093

A fictionalized account of the Empress of China’s discovery, around 2700 B.C., that the cocoons of the worms in her mulberry trees were made of fine, shiny, silken thread which could be made into beautiful cloth.

Author: Ron Fridell
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: cycle, life, silkworm
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-08-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1432925458
ISBN-13: 9781432925451

Takes an in-depth look at the ever-changing lives of some familiar plants and animals and their development.

Author: Dina Drits
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Keywords: nature, bird, moths, silkworm
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-03
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0822500698
ISBN-13: 9780822500698

Author: L. P. Sen
Publisher: Sangam Books Limited
Keywords: thread, slender
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0861316924
ISBN-13: 9780861316922

IS A STORY BY THE COMMANDER OF THE KASHMIR CONFRONTATION.

Author: Ann Hood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, thread, red
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-05-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393070204
ISBN-13: 9780393070200

From the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle, a mother’s powerful journey from loss to love. “In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. Who is at the end of your red thread?” After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of their desire for a child. Their painful and courageous jour

Author: Deanna Fei
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: novel, sky, thread
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594202494
ISBN-13: 9781594202490

Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever. A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of a family of women and the powerful thread that binds their lives. In following the paths chosen by six fiercely independent women, A Thread of Sky explores the terrain we must travel to recognize the strength and vulnerability of those closest to us. When her husband of thirty years is killed in a devastating accident, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. Nora,