num_pages: 288
description: Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then he ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever. Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father. But Paw-Paw tells her about the mother Casey never knew, and about her family's owl charm and her true Chinese name. And Casey at last begins to understand that this -- Paw-Paw's Chinatown home, her parents' home -- is her home, too.
language: English
title: Child of the Owl
titlecomplete: Child of the Owl (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #7)
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Novels, Asian Literature, Young Adult, Juvenile, Fiction
ratings_count: 548
series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperCollins