Travel destination: China
If you Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
Alice had always felt invisible at her prestigious school until one day she actually turns invisible, her life can’t get any worse, then her family informs her they can no longer afford the tuition, Alice comes up with a plan to monetise her powers however what started out with a few innocent secrets escalates to actual crimes.
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
This story reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu a poor forgotten daughter in a famine stricken village fights to survive everyday, destined for nothing while her brother greatness, however with a turn of fate her father and brother are killed and she seizes her brother’s destiny as her own and takes on his infinity leaving her village behind to train as a monk.
The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker
Set in an alternate history Tang Dynasty China where Empress Wu finds a answer to immortality.
Zilan is a bit different to her peers, not only is her father a foreigner she’s a alchemist who practises the illegal art of raising the dead, her only dream is becoming an imperial alchemist and providing for her family, however this is no easy feat.
The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis and Vivian Truong
A middle grade graphic novel about a young girl who has just moved, her main concerns are fitting in and making friends however an old women gives her a strange egg on a field trip which turns out to be a dragon, which is more work than you think, from keeping it hidden to saving it from evildoers, Grace’s life has changed.
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
A retelling of Cinderella set in futuristic Beijing where a plague is ravaging the population, Cinder is a cyborg, gifted mechanic and has a mysterious past and is blamed for her stepsister illness, but when her life becomes intwnied with the prince, she finds herself in the middle of intergalactic struggle.