Tangshan Tigers: The Invisible Cloud

Nov 17, 2024 12:26 PM

Author:Dan Lee

The Tigers travel to Japan for a new championship tournament against the Kyoto Institute. Thrilled to be competing, the team is thrown by Master Chang succumbing to a strange illness. Other teachers and pupils are getting ill too, and it's clear someone's determined to stop the tournament. It's a race against time for the Tigers to find their new enemy, but is it already too late?

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—— Guardian

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—— Carousel

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—— Publishers Weekly

Vivid, warm and amusing

—— Evening Standard

Written in a first-person voice of disarming honesty, the book rings true through all of its many layers

—— Guardian

A good read for 11-year-olds who want to know their counterparts a century ago were truly human

—— TES

A most enjoyable book, full of life, warmth and humour

—— The School Librarian

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