num_pages: 248
description: 
  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.
language: English
title: Dragonwings
titlecomplete: Dragonwings
genres: Fiction, China, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Read For School, Asia, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, School
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: Scholastic