Dragonwings CD (Golden Mountain Chronicles) [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Laurence Yep (Author), B.D. Wong (Reader)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles

Moon Shadow is eight when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco's Chinatown and works in a laundry. Moon Shadow has never seen him.

Moon Shadow soon loves and respects this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. With Moon Shadow's help, Windrider is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and longing for his own country to make his dream come true.

Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep's historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Audio CD
• Publisher: HarperFestival; Unabridged edition (September 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061493368
• ISBN-13: 978-0061493362
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fourth Grade boy likes it...but it is long, April 10, 2010

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Rachael "Mom of all BOYS" (Napa, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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I purchased this for my dyslexic fourth grade boy who needs to do a book report. It's a bit long, and takes some time to get into. There are a lot of little cool things in the begining but we are at the half way point and it's starting to roll more quickly now. We are enjoying it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Dragonwings CD, January 30, 2012

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Enjoyed B.D. Wong's interpretive reading of the novel. He does read at a rather slow pace though. Over all very enjoyable.