Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
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In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. Annotation. 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.
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Chinese Americans, Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, Children's plays, American, Fiction, History, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Chinatown, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Chinese americans, fiction, Large type books, Aeronautics, Accelerated Reader, 6.6., Fathers and sons -- Juvenie fiction, Fathers and songsPlaces
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25th anniversary edition--Cover.
Sequel: The Red Warrior.
"Newbery Honor book"--Cover.
Best Books for Junior High Readers.
Best Books for Young Teen Readers.
Carter G. Woodson Award (NCSS) 1976.
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction 1976.
JANE Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book 1976.
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A young boy travels from rural China to San Francisco in 1903 to join his father who lives and works in Chinatown. Everything about America is strange to him- the language, the clothes, the houses, the food, the customs, and the calendar. He learns to adapt, makes new friends, and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Throughout the book he and his fellow Chinese share many folktales and customs from their home country.
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