Stella Street's Fresh News

Author: Hani / Zhao Yingxue (Australia)
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: To further enhance young readers' experience with classics and appreciate excellence, Xinlei Publishing House launched a large-scale prize-winning writing campaign titled "Read Award-Winning Novels, Write Reading Testimonials, and Visit Times Square in New York" across the country from September 2004 to August 2005. Young readers could submit their reflections on reading any book in this series to Xinlei Publishing House (No. 35 Xikang Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300051) between September 2004 and March 2005. Outstanding essays selected would be published in Composition Communication, Primary School Students' Composition, Fairyland Kingdom, and on Xinlei Publishing House's website. The publisher would also fund two winners of the first prize and one outstanding organizer of the campaign to visit New York in the summer of 2005 to seek out the crickets of Times Square as depicted by renowned children's author Selden, as well as tour Disneyland in Los Angeles and Universal Studios Hollywood. The residents of Stella Street are all from ordinary families. The children living on this street get along even better than siblings. Suddenly, one day, a mysterious and wealthy new neighbor moved in, and many strange things began to happen: the new neighbor's eccentric lifestyle, their constant of the neighbors, a series of mysterious letters, half-torn faxes, and enigmatic signals. From these clues, the children embarked on a series of tracking, investigation, surveillance, and search for answers. This book is a children's adventure story, filled with suspense—，, leaving readers with no time to breathe as they naturally follow the unique narration of the young female protagonist. The ultimate theme the book conveys is a sense of belonging through family bonds and neighborly harmony. This book won the 1999 Australian Children's Book Council Silver Award.