Pub Date: June 30, 1988
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 81048644
Lexile Code: 0830
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 7.50" L x 5.00" W ( 0.40 lbs) 224 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Action and Adventure | Fairy Tales and Folklore | Country and Cultural | Asian American and Pacific Islander | Fantasy | Dragons Unicorns and Mythical Creatures | Legends Myths Fables | Asian | Places | Asia | Animals | Marine Life | Social Themes | Friendship | Diversity and Multicultural | Girls and Women
Series: Dragon Series
Description: 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. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Dragonwings.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes: "An exciting tapestry of myth and folklore."-- ALA "Booklist