Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1867) Trade paperback - 2001
by Laurence Yep
- Used
- Paperback
The prequel to the Newbery Honor-winning Dragonwings. In rural China in 1865, 14-year-old Otter begins his journey to America to meet his father and legendary uncle on the transcontinental railroad. In the freezing mountains of the Sierras, Otter begins to discover himself and what he's made of.
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- Title Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1867)
- Author Laurence Yep
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition First THUS Editi
- Condition Used Good
- Pages 335
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date January 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 229768
- ISBN 9780064404891 / 0064404897
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.58 x 5.3 x 0.73 in (19.25 x 13.46 x 1.85 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 730
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Chinese - United States, Railroads - Sierra Nevada Mountains - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92043649
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders.
Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 05/01/1995, Page 0
