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  Spring Pearl: The Last Flower (Girls of Many Lands)

  by Laurence Yep

  Part of the Girls of Many Lands series, this colorful novel introduces the spirited 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl against the backdrop of Canton, China, during the Opium War of 1857. The recently orphaned girl has been liberally raised by her artist parents she can read and write and speak English but now she's a charity case, taken in by Master Sung, a wealthy friend of her father's. Life with Sung's... (more)
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  Dragon of the Lost Sea (Dragon Series)

  by Laurence Yep

  The outlawed princess of the Dragon Clan and her young human companion undergo fearsome trials in their quest for an evil enchantress. ‘Dramatic tension stays high. Weaves Chinese legend into an exciting tapestry of myth and folklore.’ —BL. Notable Children's Books of 1982 (ALA) 100 Favorite Paperbacks of 1989 (IRA/CBC)
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  The Star Fisher

  by Laurence Yep

  It is 1927, and Joan Lee and her family have just moved to West Virginia to open a laundry and start new lives. But the Lees are the first Chinese-Americans that Clarksburg has ever seen, and not everyone in town is ready to welcome them. "A forceful picture of prejudice and persecution . . . and a touching picture of courage and patience in enduring both."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
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  American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

  by Laurence Yep

  The dragon, a symbol of Asian art and mythology, appears in many guises and is always adaptable -- a survivor par excellence. Asian Americans display this same supple strength as they move between their Asian culture and their American one. In American Dragons , Laurence Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a different story about the Asian American experience: - A Chinese American girl... (more)
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  Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1867)

  by Laurence Yep

  In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle... (more)
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  Dragonwings

  by Laurence Yep

  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.
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  The Khan's Daughter: A Mongolian Folktale

  by Laurence Yep

  Hearing it foretold that he will marry the Khan's daughter someday, poor shepherd boy Mongke journeys to the Khan's court to prove himself worthy but is taught a lesson by the strong-minded princess that neither of them will forget.
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  The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

  by Laurence Yep

  A gripping portrait of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Laurence Yep. When the quake subsides, Chin and Henry and their families are lucky to be alive. But now they must escape the fires that have broken out and find their way to safety–before it's too late. Based on actual events and told from the alternating perspectives of two young friends, The Earth Dragon Awakes is... (more)
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  The Butterfly Boy

  by Laurence Yep

  In a tale inspired by the fourth century B.C. writings of Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu, a boy dreams that he is a butterfly, and as a butterfly, he dreams that he is a boy.
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  Dream Soul

  by Laurence Yep

  Will the Lees celebrate Christmas? Everyone else in their small town in West Virginia is getting ready for Christmas, but Joan's parents won't let her and her siblings celebrate: Christmas is not Chinese. Then their father finally promises they can go to a neighbor's Christmas party, but only if none of them misbehaves at all in the weeks before the holiday. If only he was as generous as Joan's friend Victoria's... (more)
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  Dragon Steel

  by Laurence Yep

  Returning to her underwater dragon kingdom expecting to be rewarded for capturing an enchantress, Shimmer and young Thorn instead must continue their quest to restore the dragon princess’s clan to its ancestral home.A tale of dungeons, sea monsters, and magicians, this sequel to Dragon of the Lost Sea "will lure even more readers to <Yep's> legion of followers." —V. "The novel's fast pace <and>... (more)
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  Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)

  by Laurence Yep

  Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever. Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father.... (more)
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  Dragon War

  by Laurence Yep

  The dragon princess Shimmer fights the final battle to save her home The evil, immortal Boneless King has taken possession of the powerful dragon cauldron-with the soul of Thorn, the human child, trapped inside-and has declared all-out war on dragonkind. His plan: to use the cauldron to boil the seas and destroy the dragons. And he has convinced Shimmer's brother, Pomfret, to be his ally. The dragon princess... (more)
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  Dragon Cauldron

  by Laurence Yep

  Will the Dragon Homeland be Restored? Monkey tells the tale as he joins the dragon princess Shimmer, and, along with two feisty humans, they embark on a mission to recover the dragon homeland. It has been Shimmer's personal quest for years, ever since Witch Civet stole the sea, and the dragons were evicted from their magnificent palaces of coral and pearl. Now the archenemy Civet is repentant, and she too has... (more)
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  Man Who Tricked A Ghost

  by Laurence Yep

  While traveling on a dark and deserted road, a man named Sung encounters a mischievous ghost and teaches the spook a lesson about the value of brains over brawn. By the author of The Starfisher.
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  The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty & the Beast Tale

  by Laurence Yep

  When a poor farmer falls into the clutches of a dragon, only Seven, his youngest daughter, will save him—by marrying the beast. Publishers Weekly praised "Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling" and Mak's "skillfully and radiantly rendered illustrations" in this captivating and luminous Chinese variation of the beauty and the beast tale. A 1998 Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) A... (more)
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  My Name Is America

  The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner

  by Laurence Yep

  In 1852, during the height of the California Gold Rush, ten-year-old Wong Ming-Chung makes the dangerous trip to America to join his uncle on his hunt for a fortune. The true treasure for Ming-Chung, though, is America itself. In the midst of the lawless, often hostile environment, he is able to forge an international community of friends.