num_pages: 248
description: Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow's help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and 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.
language: English
title: Dragonwings
titlecomplete: Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #5)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Read For School, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 4164
places: Chinatown, San Francisco, California
series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, name: Carter G. Woodson Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association), awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult & Middle School/Junior High (1980)
publisher: HarperCollins