Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
by Laurence Yep
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
7th grade and up
Laurence Yep is a Chinese-American whose writing often focuses on cultural alienation and racial conflict. Yep’s father was born in China and moved to the United States when he was ten, living with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood. He later opened a grocery store in an African American community after the Depression. Yep grew up in San Francisco feeling alienated as his neighborhood’s “all-purpose Asian” but at his parochial bilingual school he was teased for only knowing Engli...more
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This is one of those stories that makes a reader feel like...I dunno, like they've just chewed the words, like a cow chews cud...reading it was like chewing a handful of Goldfish until it made a substantial paste...The paste to which I refer (in quite a demented way, for which I must apologize) is a texture that can only be achieved by an author who knows how to handle historical fiction.
Although several passages seemed unpleasant--largely due to the well rendered pain and injustice experienc...more
Although several passages seemed unpleasant--largely due to the well rendered pain and injustice experienc...more
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Read in November, 2007
I did not like this book at all. While I was reading it, I tried to keep an open mind, but I had a hard time being called a "demon" the whole time. I understand the book was trying to be realistic toward the time period, but since it is geared towards young adults, I would have liked the main character to learn the lesson of not judging a book by its cover. That never happened which is why I think I took such offense to being called a "demon".
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A great book if you want to learn a bit about Chinese history. Also a great book about trying to maintain culture while in a different nation from where you were born. But wouldn't really recommend it if you're looking for a good book to read.
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Read in April, 2008
Interesting idea but the narrator doesn't read like a kid, and the language is too stilted at times. Relationships don't always seem authentic. Interesting look at the life of Chinese-American immigrants in the early 1900s.
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A man and his son coming to understand each other, their adopted homeland and the power of flight in earthquake-ravaged 1903 San Francisco.
Read for work - Loved it!
Read for work - Loved it!
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we read this book for english last year. I don't know if I liked it that much; it was okay, I guess. I end is good, but there's too much violence and stuff in it...
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I had to read this book for school. I thought it could've been a lot better. It was like it was trying to get better, but it just didn't.
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Read in January, 2007
A little difficult to get into at first, but very rewarding. A great picture of early western America from a different perspective.
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I didn't find it exciting as a child, but as an adult I've learned to see how beautiful it is. Might have been better read aloud.
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Read in October, 1976
A Newbery Honor that I loved as a child. I booktalked it for 5th graders a few years ago, and they seemed interested.
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Read in September, 1990
I read this one in 1990 and again several years later for a book discussion, and I enjoyed it both times.
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Laurence Yep, you bore me. I totally expected this book to be about dragons. I was very upset.
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