Product Key Features
Book TitleZachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLegends, Myths, Fables / Asian, Fantasy & Magic, People & Places / Asia, Action & Adventure / General, General, Social Themes / Values & Virtues, People & Places / United States / Asian American
Publication Year2023
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorXiran Jay Zhao
Book SeriesZachary Ying Ser.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2021-030444
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsJam-packed with humour, heart, and hijinks, ZACHARY YING is the Chinese history class you wished you had at school. Exploring diaspora and intersectional identity in between magical heists and mythical creatures, this book is a marvel. I am officially a Xiran Jay Zhao stan!
Grade FromThird Grade
Dewey DecimalF
Grade ToSeventh Grade
SynopsisPercy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade "edge-of-your-seat adventure" (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies ) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack's body and binds to Zack's AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack's mom's soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history's most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor's incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can't finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.1.Z516Zac 2023