Dragon Wings by Laurence Yep

Awards for Dragonwings

*1975 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year

*1975 Newbery Medal Honor Book

*1976 Children's Book Award

*1976 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book

*1976 Carter G. Woodson Book Award

*1977 Boston Globe Book Award Honor Book

*1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

*1980, '81 & '82 New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age

*1984 Friends of Children and Literature Award

Moon Shadow is a young immigrant who moves from China to San Francisco to live with his father, someone Moon Shadow had never met. Moon Shadow and his father find work and a place to live with relatives who live in Chinatown. But this soon becomes dangerous for the two of them when a man is killed. They must leave their relatives and their job to find a safe place to work and live. They find boarding away from Chinatown with a white family. It is here that Moon Shadow's father, Windrider, tries to pursue his dream of building and flying his own airplane. Windrider corresponds with the Wright Brothers all the while Moon Shadow must take on more jobs as head of the household.

Other books by Laurence Yep;

Child of the Owl, 1977

Sea Glass, 1979

Dragon of the Lost Sea, 1982

The Rainbow People, 1989

Tiger Woman, 1994

Later, Gater, 1995

Dragon Prince, 1996