The butterfly boy by laurence yep autobiography
The Butterfly Boy
Laurence Yep
Yep leaves his oft-visited literary stomping grounds of San Francisco's Chinatown in this heartwarming historical tale based on real events.
The butterfly boy by laurence yep autobiography pdf Since the second graders have never met anyone like Gooney Bird, they want to hear more about her. Already have an account? Not easy or entirely successful but, still, a philosophic tale with worthy and venerable roots, certainly worthy of The City of Dragons.Ursula loves living in tiny Whistle, Mont., or what Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
PW said that this story about a cocky peasant who sets out to win the hand of the Khan's daughter "embraces human foibles with both the ageless charm Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Part of the Girls of Many Lands series, this colorful novel introduces the spirited year-old Chou Spring Pearl against the backdrop of Canton, China, during the Opium War of The recently Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
A teen and her younger siblings itch to accept their neighbor's invitation to a Christmas party; their parents, however think they should be celebrating Chinese holidays, "not American Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, this novel mixes elements of fantasy and fairy tale as an eight-year-old boy gets a paintbrush that transforms his dreary life.
"Snappy dialogue, Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
"A very few must protect the many, and with no thanks for their efforts." An ominous portent for an eighth grade boy, but that's the lesson at the heart of this original fairy tale, in Continue reading »
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PW called this novel starring a boy, a dragon and a monkey (among others) who attempt to secure and protect a fabled phoenix egg, an "original fairy tale Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
This short novel about a father and son's journey from rural China to San Francisco in will firmly grip the target audience.
The nine-year-old narrator, who is modeled on Laurence Yep's Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Drawing from his rich cache of childhood memories, Yep (The Dragon's Child) offers an affectionate celebration of family, cultural traditions, and San Francisco's Chinatown in the early s. Like Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Yep's sweeping fantasy tells of Shimmer, an exiled dragon princess, who must team up with a boy to try to restore her dragon clan's lost home.
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Laurence Yep
Growing up in San Francisco in the '60s, young Casey hears of her Chinese heritage and the mother she never knew from her grandmother, Paw Paw. Ages up. Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Grouped under such auspicious headings as Tricksters,'' ``Fools and Vices and Virtues,'' these 20 Chinese folktales afford entertainment and subtle messages.
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Laurence Yep
This Newbery Honor Book, a prequel to Dragonwings, tells of year-old Otter's emigration from China and subsequent travails in California. Ages up.
The butterfly boy by laurence yep autobiography book Child of the Owl. Not until high school when Yep attended a less segregated Catholic school did he confront white American culture in person, having grown up among Black and Chinese kids. Based on the author's own experiences, this Christopher Award winner movingly describes a Chinese American family's adjustment to their new home in West Virginia in and the prejudice they Continue reading ». Dragon War.Continue reading »
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A young Chinese American dancer is forced to give up her ballet lessons so her family can pay for her grandmother to emigrate. Ages up. Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
""This Southern Chinese adaptation of a traditional Chinese tale gains notability through Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling,"" said PW.
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Laurence Yep
This short novel about a father and son's journey from rural China to San Francisco in will firmly grip the target audience. The nine-year-old narrator, who is modeled on Laurence Yep's Continue reading »
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As he did in The Shell Woman & the King (reviewed July 12), Newbery Honor author Yep again reinvigorates a centuries-old Chinese tale.
The hero, Sung, aptly dressed in red, is so fearless he picnics Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee tells of her family's hard-won acceptance as the first Chinese-Americans in a small West Virginia town. It is , and few in Clarksburg have the breadth of experience or Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
When Uncle Wu marries the beautiful Shell, who is of the sea and can assume the form of a seashell at will, he cannot resist bragging about her, and word soon reaches the realm's greedy, cruel king.
The butterfly boy by laurence yep autobiography summary Children's literature , historical fiction , speculative fiction , autobiography. However, like a butterfly, he doesn't mind derisive laughter, and he has a special understanding of natural beauty—and also of an invading army he imagines it to be a centipede and its warlord, whom he sees as a beetle on its back the insulted lord lets him go as "either madman or a prophet". The recently Continue reading ». Godzilla makes an unruly pet, as teenage Piper Kincaid learns when his geneticist father hatches a monster a foot high to prove it's possible.Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
For aficionados of the ""Beauty and the Beast"" theme, this Southern Chinese adaptation of a traditional Chinese tale gains notability through Yep's (Dragonwings) elegant, carefully crafted Continue reading »
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Yep (The Man Who Tricked a Ghost) here gracefully wraps a 17th-century Chinese fable in a zestful style that speaks immediately to readers and vivifies its moral-that ``those at the top should help Continue reading »
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Adopting a light tone far removed from the solemnity of Hiroshima (see boxed review, page ), Yep trains his attention on a close-knit family in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Teddy's mother, insisting Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Yep's account of the bombing of Hiroshima and its devastating aftermath is at once chilling and searing, hushed and thundering. Within a factual framework, the author sets the fictional story of a Continue reading »
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This zesty retelling of a Shantung folktale is as expertly executed as Yep's (Tree of Dreams) previous picture books.
When a beggar asks a selfish old woman for a bite of her bean curd, she replies, Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
In this humorous folktale, a cocky peasant, Mongke, sets out to win the hand of the Khan's daughter, and is given the requisite series of trials to prove his worth. He prevails, but not because he is Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Yep (The Khan's Daughter, reviewed above) is off to a roaring start with this launch to a mystery series set in San Francisco's Chinatown.
As it begins, year-old Lily's glamorous great-aunt Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
This sequel to Ribbons takes a further searching and funny look at Chinese-American family life. Ages up. (Aug.) Continue reading »
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""There are two kinds of people in this world--the bullies and the victims,"" Teddy tells his younger brother, Bobby; the two have just incurred the wrath of their schoolmate Arnie, better known as Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
The setting for this appealing contemporary tale is San Francisco's Chinatown, the same as for Yep's simultaneously released Cockroach Cooties (reviewed Feb.
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Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep's Golden Mountain Chronicles-which traces the experiences of the Youngs, a Chinese family, over several generations in America (the publisher includes in the series Dragonwings, Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
In a sequel to Cockroach Cooties by Laurence Yep, Teddy's uncle gives him a weekend camping trip as a birthday present, transforming him into a Skunk Scout when he gets sprayed by the offender in Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Godzilla makes an unruly pet, as teenage Piper Kincaid learns when his geneticist father hatches a monster a foot high to prove it's possible.
(On the command, ""Tokyo,'' the little beast breathes Continue reading »
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The sections into which these 20 stories are grouped--``Tricksters,'' ``Fools,'' ``Virtues and Vices,'' ``In Chinese-America'' and ``Love,''--offer readers a way to pick and choose their ways through Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
In this somewhat desultory but affecting autobiography, Yep ( Dragonwings ) describes himself as a collection of disparate puzzle pieces: a Chinese-American raised in a black neighborhood, a child Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
``If there is one animal that is synonymous with Asian mythology and art--and the heart--it is the dragon,'' writes Yep ( The Rainbow People , Drag on wings ), who adds that when Asians came to Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Noted children's author Yep ( The Rainbow People ; The Star Fisher ) scrupulously culls numerous early Chinese American tales, most of them collected as part of a s WPA project in Oakland's Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Monkey opens this narration--part of the saga of the dragons' efforts to reclaim their home--where the events of Dragon Cauldron left off: he and his companions are captives of the Boneless King and Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Based on the author's own experiences, this Christopher Award winner movingly describes a Chinese American family's adjustment to their new home in West Virginia in and the prejudice they Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Drawing on a classic Chinese ghost story, Yep delivers a lively, shivery tale in which a nine-year-old boy tests his wits against those of a powerful ghost fox.
The butterfly boy by laurence yep autobiography Laurence Yep. The Rainbow People. Hiroshima: A Novella. True Life in Uncanny Valley.The stakes are high: the ghost fox is Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Little Chou leads a poor but honest life with his widowed mother. When he comes across a basket of silver, he tries to return it, but the owner refuses, knowing that the silver is tainted by the Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
""Dreaming is a bond that unites us-beyond language and custom, beyond geography and time itself,"" writes Yep (Dragon's Gate; Child of the Owl) in his preface to this intriguing collection.
Culled Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
``Once there was a boy with the saddest face in the world. Even when he was happy, everyone who saw him thought he must be sad, and they became sad, too.'' Embellishing the memory of an disfigured, Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Yep fumbles with this strained tale about an year-old girl who yearns to dance.
The star of her ballet class, Robin Lee has to give up her lessons at Madame Oblamov's academy when her mother Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Jim's Grandpop is widely known as the meanest man in Chinatown, and Jim is afraid of him. But then he meets the Imp, a truly nasty Chinese genie who has escaped from a dug-up vase.
The Imp is out to Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep continues the adventures of Chinese-American ballet student Robin Lee, previously met in Ribbons and The Cook's Family, in Angelfish, a twist on ""Beauty and the Beast."" Robin has Continue reading »
Laurence Yep, Joanne Ryder
In this series launch, Yep (the Dragon quartet), collaborating for the first time with his wife, Ryder (Won’t You Be My Kissaroo?), again conjures up a world where dragons and humans Continue reading »
Laurence Yep
They couldn't be more different: year-old Scirye is the well-traveled daughter of a noble family from the ancient Kushan empire in central Asia.
Leech, also 12, is a boy of the streets who trusts Continue reading »
Linda Fang
PW found these nine tales derived from classic Chinese operas and novels (often involving several twists of fate or reversals of fortune) ""nimbly told"" with ""strong ambiance."" Ages 8-up. Continue reading »