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The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island
Contributor(s): Yep, Laurence (Author), Yep Dr, Kathleen S. (Author)

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ISBN: 0062018159     ISBN-13: 9780062018151
Publisher: HarperCollins
OUR PRICE: $6.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Parents
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Lexile Measure: 640(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.5" L (0.25 lbs) 160 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Ethnic Orientation - Chinese
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 121308
Reading Level: 4.4   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Did you want to go to America?
Pop: Sure. I didn't have a choice. My father said I had to go. So I went.
Were you sad when you left your village?
Pop: Maybe a little . . . well, maybe a lot.

Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep knows that he must leave his home in China and travel to America with the father who is a stranger to him. Gim Lew doesn't want to leave behind everything that he's ever known. But he is even more scared of disappointing his father. He uses his left hand, rather than the "correct" right hand; he stutters; and most of all, he worries about not passing the strict immigration test administered at Angel Island.

The Dragon's Child is a touching portrait of a father and son and their unforgettable journey from China to the land of the Golden Mountain. It is based on actual conversations between two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep and his father and on research on his family's immigration history by his niece, Dr. Kathleen Yep.


Contributor Bio(s): Yep Dr, Kathleen S.: -

Dr. Kathleen S. Yep is an assistant professor of Asian American studies and sociology at Pitzer College, which is a member of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. This is her first book for children. She lives in San Gabriel, California.

Yep, Laurence: -

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.


 
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