All the while the two prepare for immigration tests to be administered at Angel Island outside San Francisco, knowing that failure means deportation only during this test do readers finally learn the boy's name. As the journey begins, the boy slowly learns hard truths: the father's impressive clothes have been rented, and he works as a houseboy (“The clan would have laughed at the notion,” the son notes grimly). The narrator perceives his father as rich and successful, but he also sees that his father sticks out “like a flagpole” in his village. Although his work is varied and constantly evolving, he is perhaps best known for. ) father, describes his shy reintroduction to his own father, a “Guest of the Golden Mountain” (someone who lives in America) who has returned to his family's village in China, this time to bring the narrator back to San Francisco with him. Laurence Yep is one of the most successful writers in the field of children's and young adult fiction, having published well over twenty-five novels and numerous short stories and picture books since the debut of his first book, Sweetwater (Harper and Row, 1973).
The nine-year-old narrator, who is modeled on Laurence Yep's ( Dragonwings Bibliographic information Title, The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 Author, Laurence Yep Edition, illustrated Publisher. This short novel about a father and son's journey from rural China to San Francisco in 1922 will firmly grip the target audience.
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