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major award. It had been a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal.
Content.
"Dragonwings" features the Chinese American experience in the United States, specifically San Francisco, shortly after the turn of the twentieth century.
The protagonist is Moon Shadow Lee, or in the Chinese order, Lee Moon Shadow. Moon Shadow grew up in China, having never seen his father, who had traveled to "The Golden Mountain" in America and worked hard in a family laundry which served the "white
Dragonwings
Dragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975. It inaugurated the "Golden Mountain Chronicles" (below) and it is the fifth chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012. The book is used in school classrooms and has been adapted as a play under its original title. Yep and "Dragonwings" won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a