Grades 4-7--Laurence Yep''s Newbery Honor book HarperCollins,
1975 offers insights into the lives of Chinese-Americans in early
20th century California. The story begins as eight-year-old Moon
Shadow Lee journeys across the Pacific to join his proud and clever
father at the family-owned laundry in San Francisco. The boy
recounts their problems with prejudice, as well as the kindness of
uncles and cousins. Father and son must leave the protection of the
family to move out of Chinatown, but
內容簡介:
Moon shadow is eight 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''even the great
earthquake''to make his dream come true.
1976 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children''s Books of 1971–1975 ALA
1976 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction
1976 Fanfare Honor List The Horn Book
"Best of the Best" Children''s Books 1966–1978 SLJ
Outstanding Children''s Books of 1975 NYT
1976 Children''s Book Award IRA
Children''s Choices for 1976 IRACBC
Notable 1975 Children''s Trade Books in Social Studies
NCSSCBC
1976 Carter G. Woodson Award NCSS
1976 Jane Addams Children''s Book Award Honor Book
1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Children''s Books of 1975 Library of Congress
1979 Books for the Teen Age NY Public Library
1995 Phoenix Award Children''s Literature Association
關於作者:
Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books
for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books
Dragonwings and Dragon''s Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San
Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and
The Dragon''s Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with
his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public
Library''s "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank
Street College of Education Best Children''s Book.
Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended
Marquette University, graduated from the University of California
at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of
New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with
his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.