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Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Read Alikes: Wings of Fire
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
3) Dragon war
Author
Series
Dragon series (Laurence Yep) volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home.
4) Dragon steel
Author
Series
Dragon series (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To free her clan from slavery at underwater forges, the dragon princess Shimmer and her human companion Thorn combat the Dragon King's jealousy and treachery.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Swept up in one of the local rebellions against the Manchus in China, nineteen-year-old Squeaky loses his home and travels to America to seek his fortune among the gold fields of California. Sequel to "The Serpent's Children."
6) City of fire
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
8) City of ice
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the icy Arctic Circle, to prevent Roland from obtaining the power to alter the universe.
Author
Series
Dragon series (Laurence Yep) volume 1
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy.
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
English
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
14) City of death
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 3
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Scirye and her loyal companions chase the villainous Mr. Roland for a final showdown at Riye Srukalleyis, the City of Death, located in the heart of the Kushan Empire, along the Silk Road. There, they reunite with old friends, meet new allies, and confront an even more dangerous foe"--
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Description
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. Dragon's gate is third in the Golden mountain chronicles: 1867, and the second book is "Mountain light." The first book is The serpent's light. The fourth book is The traitor, and the last one is titled Dragonwings....
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Formats
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
20) Child of the owl
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Publisher
HarperTrophy, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1990, ©1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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