(not on Core Literature List)
Dragonwings ~ Books with the same theme
MSK=Middleschool of the Kennebunks |
| Loc | Call No | Title | Author | Pub Yr | Annotation |
MSK |
304.8 Hoo | We are Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience | Hoobler, Dorothy | 2003 | A history of immigration to America, from speculation about the earliest immigrants to the present day. |
| MSK | 305.42 Cha | Bound Feet & Western Dress | Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha | 1997 | Tells story of author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a woman who challenged Chinese tradition by refusing to have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent poet Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s. |
| MSK |
921 Mah |
Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter | Mah, Adeline Yen | 1999 | The author tells the story of her painful childhood in China where she lived until the age of fourteen with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth to her. |
| MSK | 979.4 Bri | Angel Island | Brimmer, Larry Dane | 2001` | Describes the history of San Francisco Bay's Angel Island as an army base, detention center, and immigration station before its preservation as a state park. |
| MSK | AUD FIC Yep | Dragonwings (sound recording) | Yep, Laurence | 2001 | In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. |
| MSK | FIC Fle | Walk Across the Sea | Fletcher, Susan | 2001 | In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her. |
| MSK | FIC Hal |
Henry and the Kite Dragon | Hall, Bruce Edward | 2004 | In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so. |
| MSK | FIC Mar | Flight of the Fisherbird | Martin, Nora | 2003 | In 1889 in the islands off the coast of Washington State, thirteen-year-old Clementine pulls a nearly drowned Chinese man our of the sea and begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may have been involved in his attempted murder as well as other treacherous deeds. |
| MSK | FIC Yep | The Star Fisher | Yep, Laurence | 1991 | Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s. |
| MSK | FIC Yep | Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles 1903, 25th Anniversary Ed. | Yep, Laurence | 2000 | In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. |
| MSK | FIC Yep | The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles | Yep, Laurence | 2003 | In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. |
| MSK | FIC Yep | Dragon's Gate | Yep, Laurence | 1993 | 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. |
| MSK | VHS 951 Not | Not One Less (video recording) | Sony Pictures | 2000 | A thirteen-year-old girl is ordered to substitute teach in rural China. A troubled student disappears into the big city to find work while the stubborn substitute tries to find him. |
| MSK | VHS 951 Tol | To LIve (video recording) | MGM Home Entertainment | 2003 | A Chinese family's story of survival during the most tempestuous years of their country's history. |
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