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Laurence Yep - Dragonwings

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<P><B><CENTER>Will Windrider<BR> take to the skies?</CENTER></B></P><P>Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his... Read More
<P><B><CENTER>Will Windrider<BR> take to the skies?</CENTER></B></P><P>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.</P><P>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.</P> <P> <awards> 1976 Newbery Honor Book<br>Notable Children's Books of 1971?1975 (ALA)<br>1976 Boston Globe?Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction<br>1976 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br>"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966?1978 (SLJ)<br>Outstanding Children's Books of 1975 (NYT)<br>1976 Children's Book Award (IRA)<br>Children's Choices for 1976 (IRA/CBC)<br>Notable 1975 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br>1976 Carte Minimize
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By: plorentz
Oct 23, 2005

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

Author's Rating: 5/5 stars

Pros: An inspired (and inspiring) story and a brilliant evocation of early 20th Century San Francisco.

Cons: Crickets chirp.

Bottom Line:
In which the author and his son have a new favorite writer. Read More


By: nitsua96
Mar 14, 2007

I loved this book!

Author's Rating: 5/5 stars

Pros: A very inspirational and sensitive novel, I love it!

Cons: There is nothing I did not like about this book.


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