Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles)

Yep, Laurence

ISBN 10: 0060229721 ISBN 13: 9780060229726

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2000

Synopsis

When Otter arrives in America to join his father and his Uncle Foxfire as they work building the transcontinental railroad, he finds the conditions more harsh than he had expected and must reassess his dreams and goals.

About this title

Review:

"An engaging survival-adventure story, a social history, a heroic quest".

-- ALA Booklist

"Combining believable characters with thrilling adventure, Yep convinces readers that the Chineses railroad workers were indeed men to match the towering mountains of the west."--"School Library Journal "Told with humanity and compassion, "Dragon's Gate is a tribute to the survival and courage of these immigrants."--"1994 Chair, Newberry Award Committee""An engaging survival-adventure story, a social history, a heroic quest."--"Booklist

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 Children's Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060229721
• ISBN 13: 9780060229726
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 273