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The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island

The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island - Paperback

by Kathleen S. Yep, Laurence Yep
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathleen S. Yep, Laurence YepAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2013-12-13Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062018151ISBN-10:62018159UPC:9780062018151Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:United States, Emigration & Immigration, ParentsSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCXXFQPNDG

Did you want to go to America?
Pop: Sure. I didn't have a choice. My father said I had to go. So I went.
Were you sad when you left your village?
Pop: Maybe a little . . . well, maybe a lot.

Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep knows that he must leave his home in China and travel to America with the father who is a stranger to him. Gim Lew doesn't want to leave behind everything that he's ever known. But he is even more scared of disappointing his father. He uses his left hand, rather than the "correct" right hand; he stutters; and most of all, he worries about not passing the strict immigration test administered at Angel Island.

The Dragon's Child is a touching portrait of a father and son and their unforgettable journey from China to the land of the Golden Mountain. It is based on actual conversations between two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep and his father and on research on his family's immigration history by his niece, Dr. Kathleen Yep.

Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062018151ISBN-10:62018159UPC:9780062018151Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:United States, Emigration & Immigration, ParentsSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCXXFQPNDG
Yep, Laurence: -

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.

Yep Dr, Kathleen S.: -

Dr. Kathleen S. Yep is an assistant professor of Asian American studies and sociology at Pitzer College, which is a member of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. This is her first book for children. She lives in San Gabriel, California.

Publisher: HarperCollins

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Kathleen S. Yep, Laurence Yep

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Kathleen S. Yep, Laurence Yep

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