Dragonwings
by:
Laurence Yep (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064400855 (0064400859)
ASIN: 64400859
Publish date: January 23rd 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Asian Literature,
China
Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles (#5)
I'm falling behind on my reviews. I'll try and catch up before the month is over. I've slowly been reading Yep's Golden Mountain Chronicles this month. I don't think I've ever read them in chronological order. It was fine for the first four because they were written sequentially. Dragonwings has a...
At last, Moon Shadow was allowed to go to the Land of the Demons (America) from the Middle Kingdom (China). He had to always be on guard in America as the demons created danger everywhere. His father’s dream was to fly an airplane, a dream that started when his father read about the Wright Brothers ...
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