Dragonwings

By Laurence Yep

Price: $16.89

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Dragonwings

By Laurence Yep

Price: $16.89

About the Book

Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.

But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow’s help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country to make his dream come true.

Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep’s historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780060267384
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: Sep 17, 1975
List price: $16.89
No of pages: 256
Trim Size: 5.810 in (w) x 8.530 in (h) x 0.880 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General

Laurence Yep

Biography

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon’s Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library’s “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing” and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.

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About the Book

Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.

But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow’s help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country to make his dream come true.

Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep’s historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780060267384
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: Sep 17, 1975
List price: $16.89
No of pages: 256
Trim Size: 5.810 in (w) x 8.530 in (h) x 0.880 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General

Laurence Yep

Biography

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon’s Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library’s “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing” and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.

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