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Arkie Sparkle Treasure Hunter: Time Trap

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by Petra James


  The First Emperor

  Qin Shi Huangdi died in 210 BCE

  on a trip to the far eastern

  reaches of his empire. He was

  still looking for the secret of

  immortality. Although his dynasty,

  the Qin Dynasty, was one of the

  shortest in the history of China,

  the Emperor made lots of

  reforms that had a lasting

  effect on China.

  Li Si, The Chief Advisor

  When the Emperor died, Li Si was so frightened

  the people would revolt that he pretended

  the Emperor was still alive for two months.

  He made sure a cart of rotting fish always

  went before the Emperor’s carriage to

  disguise the smell of the Emperor’s body.

  Fu Su

  The Emperor’s first

  son was banished to

  work on the Great Wall

  of China for

  criticising his father’s

  persecution of scholars.

  He never became

  Emperor of China.

  The Book of Songs

  Chinese scholars were punished for

  owning the Book of Songs during the

  First Emperor’s rule. The book is still

  treasured and read widely today.

  Day 1

  Day 2

  Day 3

  Day 4

  First published 2012 in Pan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd 1 Market Street, Sydney 2000

  Copyright © Petra James 2012

  Illustrations copyright © Roy Chen 2012

  Copyright TJ’s Style File © Maddy Gerrard 2012

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  All rights reserved. This publication (or any part of it) may not be reproduced or transmitted, copied, stored, distributed or otherwise made available by any person or entity (including Google, Amazon or similar organisations), in any form (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical) or by any means (photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher.

  This ebook may not include illustrations and/or photographs that may have been in the print edition.

  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

  James, Petra.

  James, Petra.

  Time trap / Petra James.

  9781742611112 (pbk.)

  Arkie Sparkle. Treasure hunter ; 2.

  For children.

  A823.4

  For children.

  Adobe eReader format: 9781743348227

  EPUB format: 9781743348284

  Online format: 9781743348260

  Typeset by XOU Creative

  Cover design by Mel Feddersen

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