Dragonwings : A Newbery Honor Award Winner Paperback - 2001
by Yep, Laurence
- Used
A Chinese immigrant and his son build a flying machine in "an unusual historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco, including the Earthquake, from an immigrant's viewpoint."--"School Library Journal."
Description
Details
- Title Dragonwings : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
- Author Yep, Laurence
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 25th
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 317
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, N.Y
- Date 2001-01-23
- Bookseller's Inventory # 238219-75
- ISBN 9780064400855 / 0064400859
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.56 x 5.13 x 0.81 in (19.20 x 13.03 x 2.06 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 870
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Northern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons, Chinese Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001268268
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the publisher
First line
From the rear cover
Will Windrider
take to the skies?
Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met.
But Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with Moon Shadow's help is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his wife and country'even the great earthquake'to make his dream come true.
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/1997, Page 1701
