Operation Redwood (Paperback)

from VikkiLaw

A librarian friend predicted that this book (in which the protagonist is sent to live with his greedy, hateful corporate CEO uncle while his mom photographs temples in China on a grant) would really appeal more to me than to my ten-year-old daughter. She was wrong. My daughter really liked this...

from skstiles612

Julian Carter Li is miserable. While is mother is in China taking pictures of Buddhist Temples for a grant she was awarded, he is stuck with his rich aunt and uncle. All the money in the world doesn't matter if the people who have it are terrible. Julian can't seem to do anything right. To try an...

from skstiles612

Julian Carter Li is miserable. While is mother is in China taking pictures of Buddhist Temples for a grant she was awarded, he is stuck with his rich aunt and uncle. All the money in the world doesn't matter if the people who have it are terrible. Julian can't seem to do anything right. To try an...

from scote23

Maine Student Book Award Nominee 2010-2011I picked up this book because it had been languishing on the display at my library. I really enjoyed it. It tells the story of a kid, Julian Carter-Li, who has been sent to live with his Uncle Sibley for the summer while his mother is in China. Sibley and...

from stephxsu

Dumped with his snively aunt and uncle while his widowed mother travels to China, 12-year-old Julian Carter-Li's life changes the day he intercepts an angry email meant for his CEO uncle. In the email, a girl named Robin Elder accuses Sibley Carter of destroying precious redwood trees just to get...