Laurence Yep
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Series
Dragon's guide volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.
2) Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852: California, 1852
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Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep's incredible JOURNAL OF WONG MING-CHUNG is now in paperback with a stunning repackaging!
In 1852, during the height of the California Gold Rush, ten-year-old Wong makes the dangerous trip to America to live with his uncle, exchanging the famine and war of his native country for brutal bullies and grueling labor in America, Wong joins his uncle and countless others in the effort to strike it rich on the great "Golden...
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Tiger's apprentice volume 1
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English
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Soon to be an animated movie!
Don't miss this middle grade fantasy adventure about a boy, a magical tiger, an outlaw dragon, and a mischievous monkey who carry the fate of the world on their shoulders. From two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Laurence Yep (Dragonwings, Dragon's Gate), now with an all-new cover and introduction!
Tom Lee's life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers...
4) City of fire
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
8) City of ice
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the icy Arctic Circle, to prevent Roland from obtaining the power to alter the universe.
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Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Scirye and her loyal companions chase the villainous Mr. Roland for a final showdown at Riye Srukalleyis, the City of Death, located in the heart of the Kushan Empire, along the Silk Road. There, they reunite with old friends, meet new allies, and confront an even more dangerous foe"--
10) Dragonwings
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001?] , 1975.
Language
English
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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.
12) The traitor
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
13) Thief of hearts
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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When Stacy is paired with a Chinese girl at school who is accused of theft, she must come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.
14) Dragons of silk
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
15) Dragon road
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
16) Child of the owl
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
19) Auntie Tiger
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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In this version of Red Riding Hood set in China, Big Sister sets aside her differences with Little Sister to rescue her from a tiger in disguise.
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Series
Girl of the year. 2014: Isabelle volume 3
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 3
American girls collection volume 3
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 3
American girls collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Isabelle joins a ballet touring company headed by her dancing idol, world-class ballerina Jackie Sanchez.
