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Titles by Laurence Yep:

After an injury sends her father to the hospital, Casey is sent to Chinatown to stay with Paw-Paw, her grandmother. There she comes to understand, and even embrace, her Chinese heritage. Sequel to the award-winning "Dragonwings".

Centuries of wandering have taught the exiled dragon princess Shimmer that humans are beneath her notice. But she allows young Thorn to join her in the search for the evil witch Civet--and the quest to restore her dragon clan's lost home.

In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.

In rural China in 1865, 14-year-old Otter eagerly sails to California to join his father and legendary uncle on the transcontinental railroad. On a freezing, snow-filled mountain in the Sierras, Otter begins his harrowing journey toward self-knowledge.

A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.

Tuesday, April 17, 1906 It is early evening in San Francisco. Streetlights come on. People hurry home. No one knows about the danger below. Underneath their feet, the earth begins to stir. Wednesday, April 18, 1906, 5:12 A.M., Sacramento Street Early the next morning, Henry Travis hears a low rumbling. It sounds like a train coming. . . . Windows rattle. Doors thump. . . . There is a crash above him. Wednesday, April 18, 1906, 5:12 A.M., Chinatown Across town, Henry's friend Chin waits for the trembling to stop. But it goes on and on. . . . ?The tenement is falling!?

Citations Johnson County Public Library accessed online: http://infocat.jcplin.org. 21 February 2011.