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Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
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Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965 Trade paperback - 2001

by Yep, Laurence

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  • Paperback

This spellbinding tale of the contradictions and special heritage of growing up Chinese-American is set in early 1960s Chinatown in San Francisco. Child of the Owl "combines chiseled fantasy with the anxiety of growing up poor and nonwhite".--Kirkus Reviews. Winner of the Boston GLobe-Horn Book Award for Fiction.

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HarperCollins, 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good used copy. Inside of covers has aged to tan and covers have some shelf wear; otherwise clean and unmarked.
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  • Title Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
  • Author Yep, Laurence
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins, New York
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 601569
  • ISBN 9780064403368 / 006440336X
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.62 x 5.16 x 0.6 in (19.35 x 13.11 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 920
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Northern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: San Francisco, California
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Grandmothers, San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76024314
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 11/02/1990, Page 0

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