Dragonwings

Title: Dragonwings
Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher: HarperChildrens Audio
ISBN: 9781602528291
SKU: 1784
Release Date: 11/01/07
Genre: Children
Grade Level: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Fiction


Description : * A 1975 Newbery Honor Book
* A 1975 ALA Notable children's Book Outstanding Children's Book of 1975

Moon Shadow is eight when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco's Chinatown and works in a laundry. Moon Shadow has never seen him.

Moon Shadow soon loves and respects his father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. With Moon shadow's help, Windrider is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and longing for his own country to make his dream come true.

Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep's historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.

Laurence Yep, one of this country's preeminent Asian American authors, has written many acclaimed books for children, including Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, and Dragon of the Lost Sea. He received Newbery Honors for Dragonwings and for Dragon's Gate.

B.D. Wong made his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly. He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theater World Award for the same performance.