Dragonwings,9780064400855

Dragonwings

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Edition: 25th
ISBN13: 9780064400855
ISBN10: 0064400859
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-10
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Dragonwings is an outstanding textbook because it tells the reader how difficult it is to live in a foreign country, be only eight years old, sail to America from China alone, and meet your father for the very first time. It tells of their struggles as immigrants and with the new relationship between father and son. If you are Interested in books that have to do with perseverance and courage you should read this textbook.


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Dragonwings: 4 out of 5 stars based on 2 user reviews.

Summary

Will Windrider

take to the skies?

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 MoonShadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with MoonShadow'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

"A fine, sensitive novel . . . that conveys the Chinese American's cultural heritage." -BL

"A fine, sensitive novel written with grace in a way that conveys the Chinese American's cultural heritage." -Booklist

"A triumph." -The New York Times

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