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Laurence Yep - Dragonwings

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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.

1976 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 1971?1975 (ALA)
1976 Boston Globe?Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction
1976 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966?1978 (SLJ)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1975 (NYT)
1976 Children's Book Award (IRA)
Children's Choices for 1976 (IRA/CBC)
Notable 1975 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
1976 Carte

 

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Learning to Fly, Like People In History... Laurence Yep's Dragonwings

Date of Review:  Oct 23, 2005
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Review: It's a cold Saturday afternoon, as Stew and I walk home against the wind on the newly poured sidewalks, already lined with crumbling brown maple leaves, already decorated with stray spray-paint scribbles. Stew points this out. In my hand, I'm...
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I loved this book!

Date of Review:  Mar 14, 2007
Review: This is an inspirational story about a boy named Moon Shadow. He came over to America from China to meet his father and make money in hopes to bring his mother over, too. His father is a kite maker and lives in a building with The Company, a company...
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Authors Laurence Yep
Narrator B.D. Wong
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships • Juvenile Fiction
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1976 Horn Book Award

Book Editions

  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service (January 01, 1998)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.15 lbs.
ISBN: 9780822213260

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  Ever since I remember, I wanted to know about the Land of the Golden Mountain, but my mother never wanted to talk about it.
 

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