Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep

Each Friday that school is in session, I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Nov. 1, 2024 is Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep.

The year is 1903 and Moon Shadow is 8 years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met. But Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with Moon Shadow’s help, is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his wife and country, and even the great earthquake to make his dream come true. Dragonwings was a winner, in 1995, of the Phoenix Award; and a winner, in 1976, of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. It was an Honor Book in 1976 for the John Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Books Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.
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