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Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan.
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?
Item details
- ISBN: 9781925603910
- ISBN: 1925603911
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria ; The Text Publishing Company, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Novel for children. Author lives in New Zealand. |
| Awards Note: | New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award For Junior Fiction Winner 2020 |
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| Genre: | Children's stories. Children's stories, New Zealand. Action and adventure fiction. Spy fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. Spy fiction. Action and adventure fiction. |
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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?
