Pearl Buck 3, Ann Hood
Pearl Buck 3, Ann Hood
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Pearl Buck #3
Jewel of the East

Author: Ann Hood

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 3 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2025

Synopsis

Return to The Treasure Chest with Felix and Maisie . . .

When Felix Robbins gets a crush on Lily Goldstein, a classmate who is adopted from China, he decides to try to take her back in time so that she can see the country where she was born. Maisie discovers his plot, and foils it. But the twins end up in a small village on the Yangtze River, where they meet a girl named Pearl Buck in the days just before the Boxer Rebellion. With bandits chasing them, will they ever find safety . . . and return home?

About The Author

Ann Hood is the author of many books, including How I Saved My Father's Life (and Ruined Everything Else), The Knitting Circle, Comfort, and The Red Thread. She also knits, wanders around museums, has cool glasses, loves the color pink (although she never wears it), and spends a lot of her time wishing she could time travel and meet famous people. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, O, The Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere.Denis Zilber lives in Israel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on April 21, 2013

This series is starting to grow on me. Twins Maisie and Felix are very unhappy when their parents divorce and their dad moves to Qatar. They move with their mother to the third floor servant's quarters of the old family mansion in Rhode Island where they discover the "Treasure Room", filled with obj......more

Goodreads review by David on May 06, 2024

I am having a difficult time with this series understanding the message of the time travel. The twins meet historical figures that they don't seem to know at all, the deliver some object and then try to find a way back home. The series is slowly revealing how their Great-Aunt Maisie fits into the Tr......more

Goodreads review by Corinne on May 24, 2014

This series is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. The books are definitely written for 10-12-year olds, but it's such a treat to see Ann Hood in another light. Her work for adults is so dark and sad. But here her audience gets to see her become playful as a writer. The concept of the time-traveling......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on February 25, 2013

Given the complexity of feeling expressed between the twins and some of the adults in their lives, I'd recommend this for 4th grade and up. There are also complicated issues that the characters run up against as they time travel back to the time of the Boxer Rebellion, where Maisie & Felix meet a fa......more

Goodreads review by Kiran on September 30, 2015

This book takes place in china......more

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