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Dragon's gate / Laurence Yep.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1993.Edition: 1st edDescription: 273 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0060229713 :
  • 0060229721 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 20
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.Y44 Dqr 1993
Summary: When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Yep, Laurence 3 Available 33111002968093
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'In rural China in 1865, 14-year-old Otter eagerly sails to California to join his father and legendary uncle on the transcontinental railroad. On a freezing, snow-filled mountain in the Sierras, Otter begins his harrowing journey toward self-knowledge. An engaging survival-adventure story, a social history, a heroic quest.'--BL. 'Told with humanity and compassion... a tribute to the survival and courage of these immigrants.'--1994 Newbery Committee.

1994 Newbery Honor Book

Notable Children's Books of 1994 (ALA)

1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)

1993 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)

1994 John and Patricia Beatty Award (California Library Association)

1994 Silver Medal for Literature (Commonwealth Club of America)

Includes bibliographical references.

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.

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