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The Case of the Firecrackers
Laurence Yep
Paperback (HarperCollins, Dec. 27, 2005)Tiger Lil and Lily are ready to save the day!Lily's thrilled that she's going to meet television's biggest heartthrob, Clark Tom. But when ex-action star Aunt Tiger Lil takes Lily, Lily's brother, Chris, and Chris's girlfriend, Evie, to the set of Clark's show, tempers flare and fuses ignite as a loaded gun finds its way on to the scene. Somebody is looking for revenge, and it's up to Tiger Lil and her team to find the culprit!
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CHILD OF THE OWL
Laurence Yep
Mass Market Paperback (Laurel-Leaf Books, May 16, 1978)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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Dragon War
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1992)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
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The Cook's Family
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, Feb. 23, 1998)When the tension becomes too great at home because of her parent's constant bickering, Robin finds herself a new companion in a lonely cook at the local restaurant and rediscovers a new sense of family, as well as a feeling of connection to her Chinese roots.
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Dragon's Gate
Laurence Yep
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Oct. 1, 1993)When Otter arrives in America to join his father and his Uncle Foxfire as they work building the transcontinental railroad, he finds the conditions more harsh than he had expected and must reassess his dreams and goals.
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The Star Fisher by Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1806)None
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Child of the Owl
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (HarperCollins, April 26, 1977)"I can't remember when Barney's story began but all my life I'd heard this story about how a little girl and her father were going to hit it big one of these days....I knew more about race horses than I knew about myself -- I mean myself as a Chinese."Race horses aren't any help when Barney lands in the hospital and Casey is sent to live with Paw-Paw -- her maternal grandmother-in San Francisco's Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the crowds, the noise, the small room she has to share with Paw-Paw -- and she's not prepared for missing Barney.But Paw-Paw tells Casey about Jeanie, the mother Casey never knew, about her true Chinese name, and about the story of the family's owl charm. This shows Casey that being a child of the owl means that sometimes, like this ancestral owl spirit, you can feel like a stranger, trapped in the wrong place, in the wrong time, even in the wrong body. And as Casey begins to understand the intricacies of Chinatown and the people who become her friends, she realizes that this, Paw-Paw's home, Jeanie and Barney's home, is her home too.Laurence Yep's fine novel illuminates a rich world of truth, humor, and discovery.‘San Francisco’s Chinatown of the early ’60s is the testing ground for [12-year-old] Casey who, in finding her roots, forfeits her faith in her compulsive gambler father.’ —SLJ. ‘Combines the chiseled fantasy of Dragonwings with the anxiety of growing up poor and nonwhite.’ —K. Notable Children's Books of 1977 (ALA)1977 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction1978 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)Best Books of 1977 (SLJ)1978 Jane Addams Children's Book AwardChildren's Books of 1977 (Library of Congress)
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The Lost Garden
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Feb. 1, 1991)The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage
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Ribbons
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, March 19, 1996)When Robin Lee is forced to give up her beloved ballet lessons because her parents need the money to bring her grandmother to America from China, Robin finds herself resenting this difficult--and different--elderly foreign woman, crippled by years of having her feet bound.
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Dragons of Silk
Laurence Yep
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 13, 2011)The Weaving Maid wove robes of silk for Heaven, but when she met the Cowboy, she abandoned her loom to be with him. But Heaven would not allow this, and put the Milky Way in between them. Silk binds the lives of four girls from different generations with the fate of the Weaving Maid. Across a span of seventy-five years both in China and America, each girl shows the strength and courage of a dragon as she fights and sacrifices for the survival of her family and the pursuit of passion. In this masterfully woven conclusion to the series that includes two Newbery Honor Books, Dragonwings and DragonÂ’s Gate, award-winning author Laurence Yep brings the acclaimed Golden Mountain Chronicles full circle and pays tribute to the love of family, art, and heritage.
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Later Gator
Laurence Yep
Paperback (Hyperion Book CH, June 2, 1997)If Teddy had his way, he would get his annoying little brother socks for his birthday--but his mother insists he get his brother something special. Teddy chooses an alligator! He`s sure it`s the perfect gift, and that Bobby will be terrified--wrong! The author draws on memories of growing up in San Francisco`s Chinatown to create this story of sibling rivalry.
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