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When her gambling father becomes laid up in hospital, Casey leaves behind their seedy California hotel and goes to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown where she learns to appreciate rich Chinese heritage
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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.
"An exciting and well-plotted story." (Starred review)--" School Library Journal
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- PublisherLaurel-Leaf Books
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 044091230X
- ISBN 13 9780440912309
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages224
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Child of the Owl
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Repr. Paperback: cover edges slightly rubbed, corners lightly creased, paper browning, else vg. 220pp. A young Chinese girl finds her roots in San Francisco's China Town. Seller Inventory # 16F166
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