num_pages: 51
description: In the early twentieth century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
language: English
title: Dragonwings
titlecomplete: Dragonwings
genres: Middle Grade, Asia, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, School, Young Adult, China, 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: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.