Books with title The Lotus Seed

The Seed speaks to the need everyone has for understanding their path in life and the bumps encountered along the way, which is an issue we all struggle with at one point or another. Jason Whitney has written a story of a young seed's journey to reach its destiny and its stages of growth along the way to maturity. The Seed shows us that no matter where we find ourselves in life, what matters the most is knowing that we all have a purpose. Like The Seed, you may find a relaxing calm when you understand that your life is a journey and it often takes the good and the bad experiences working together to get you where you where you are destined to go.

A nameless Vietnamese narrator tells of her grandmother who, as a girl, accidentally sees the last emperor cry on the day of his abdication. She surreptitiously enters the palace gardens and takes a lotus seed as a remembrance of that day and her ruler. She keeps the seed with her through vicissitudes of war, flight, and emigration until one summer a grandson (the narrator's brother) steals it and plants it in a mud pool near the family's American home. Grandmother is inconsolable when the exact spot cannot be found. The following spring, a lotus grows from the mud puddle and in time the elderly woman gives a seed to each of her grandchildren, reserving one for herself. The narrator vows to plant hers one day, give the seeds to her own children, keep the tradition, and share her grandmother's memories. This tale of hope and continuance is told with disarming simplicity. Illustrated in interesting oil paintings - 0152000011 is ISBN - Special Edition for Scholastic Book Fairs

In this YA fantasy, a young scribe learns that he’s part of an ancient order and fated to battle a force that nine warriors before him failed to destroy.The Lotus Saga is a quest fantasy in which the young scribe, Rook, leaves his home village and goes on a journey with the Lotus Sword to find the Water of Life. After the death of his mentor, Rook seeks this mythical substance in order to defeat Amaranth, a thief of time. In the process Rook travels through murderous forests, endless deserts, and bends air in order to descend an unscalable cliff. He must find out who his real allies are, and uncover the motivations of a being who lives within him.Eight years ago, Rook was a starving orphan in the town of The Guardians, and the Head Scribe took him in as an apprentice. Rook came to love reading, and his favor-ite book is The Legends of the Blue. One day, the Scribe tells the young man that he must begin his training with the enchanted Lotus Sword, created by the legendary mys-tic Parthian (the hero of The Legends of the Blue), as it’s the only thing that can destroy Amaranth, a malevolent agent of Time. The fact that Rook can even lift the weapon indicates that he’s the Tenth person chosen for the Order, a lineage of warriors who’ve unsuccessfully challenged Am-aranth in the past. Later, after an enjoyable day with his friends Feihhan and Slad, Rook finds the Scribe dead. Then the Lotus Sword begins speaking to him, explaining that he must journey to the Waters of Life, which will give him and the weapon more strength and vitality.As an Indiana Jones-type plot evolves, replete with confrontations between forces of good and evil, young adult to adult readers receive a fantasy that includes many satisfying philosophical moments:"Every candle is a life. Throughout its existence, the candle burns away – some slowly, and some in a flash. And then the cycle starts anew, and a fresh candle is born from the melted wax of its predecessor."