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Gateway (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for GatewayAs a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring--and tells her that black jade translates to Daiyu--she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic.
Full description- Publisher: VIKING CHILDREN'S BOOKS
- Published: 15 October 2009
- Format: Hardback 280 pages
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- Categories: Fiction | Science Fiction | Romance | Family | Family Issues
- ISBN 13: 9780670011780 ISBN 10: 0670011789
- Sales rank: 383,105
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Review of Gateway
If you haven't read Sharon Shinn's YA works, I recommend them. What I love most about Shinn is her books, while sometimes involving romance, never center around that romance. There's no predictable endings and the characters always face complex issues. While Gateway isn't as good as The Safe-Keeper's Secret was, it still has plenty of strength on its own.
Daiyu is the adoptive daughter of a couple who was unable to have a child of their own. Adopted from China and brought over to the States when she was a baby, she knows very little of China and has never been to visit it. Now a teenager, she is a hard worker and looking to go to college soon - that is, until she stumbles across a "gateway" to another reality, a reality in which China discovered the United States.
St. Louis is renamed, the landmarks we all know are gone, and the largest minority are Caucasians. But evil still exists - and it's against that evil that Daiyu has to figure out where she stands and what decisions she needs to make regarding her future.
This was a very easy book to read, the story flowed well and Sharon Shinn's development was great, as always. It seemed a little stilted in parts, however, almost like she was writing for an audience younger than the subject matter would normally speak to - but overall I had a blast with Gateway and will be recommending it. by Lydia Presley

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