The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island - Hardcover

Yep, Laurence; Yep, Kathleen S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060276924 ISBN 13: 9780060276928

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2008

Synopsis

Standing beside his father, a man he hardly knew, at Angel Island in front of the immigration officials, ten-year-old Gim Lew fears the worst when the time comes for his father to answer very important questions that will decide their fates, in a dramatic tale about the process of Chinese American immigration.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060276924
• ISBN 13: 9780060276928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133