Dragonwings
By: by Laurence Yep
Series: Golden Mountain chronicles : 1903
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780064400855
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Chinese Americans -- Fiction.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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. 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. Annotation. 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.
Notes: 25th anniversary edition--Cover.

Sequel: The Red Warrior.

"Newbery Honor book"--Cover.

Best Books for Junior High Readers.

Best Books for Young Teen Readers.

Carter G. Woodson Award (NCSS) 1976.

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction 1976.

JANE Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book 1976.