Trying to make some fast cash, two small-time crooks devise a plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy family in a village and hold him for ransom.
The more they read, the better they will become at reading and grasping the Chinese language..
This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline which helps learners to expand their vocabularies and language comprehension abilities.
Most learners will be able to approach this book after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program.
Level 1 is intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level.
Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.
Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning.
As their Ransom notes remain unanswered and their scheme starts to drag on, the two crooks find out for themselves how a child\'s imagination can spell disaster for two inexperienced criminal minds.
When the kidnapped boy pulls out his Hong Hou (Red Monkey) costume, the two burglars realize they may be in for more than they planned.
Trying to make some fast cash, two small-time crooks devise a plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy family in a village and hold him for ransom
