Grade 6-10-Yep uses the lively storytelling techniques of his
"Dragon" fantasy-adventure novels to re-create a stirring
historical event-here, the construction of the transcontinental
railroad. Serpent''s Children 1984 and Mountain Light 1985, both
HarperCollins described the political and natural disasters that
led to widespread famine in 19th-century Southern China. Cassia and
Foxfire, the "Serpent''s Children," came from a long line of
revolutionaries. Foxfire followed his dreams across
內容簡介:
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to
California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join
his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the
other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land
of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter''s dream
is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle
Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders.
Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life --
a train for which he would open the Dragon''s Gate.
關於作者:
Laurence Yep is the author of The Imp That Ate My Homework,
about which Kirkus Reviews said, "Readers will not be able to put
this light, funny fantasy down."He received Newbery Honors in 1975
for Dragonwings and in 1994 for Dragon''s Gate.Mr. Yep lives in
Pacific Grove, California.