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American Dragons: Twenty-five Asian American Voices

Laurence Yep, Kam Mak

Paperback (HarperCollins, Sept. 7, 1995)

The dragon, a symbol of Asian art and mythology, appears in many guises and is always adaptable -- a survivor par excellence. Asian Americans display this same supple strength as they move between their Asian culture and their American one.In American Dragons, Laurence Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a different story about the Asian American experience:- A Chinese American girl struggles to find her place in a suburban high school without denying her true intelligence.- A young woman is torn when her romantic feelings clash with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents.- A twenty-first-century teenager and his aging grandfather learn that it is possible to live in the future without losing touch with the past.

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American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

Laurence Yep

Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1993)

Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American

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American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

Laurence Yep

Library Binding (HarperCollins, June 1, 1993)

Stories, poems, and excerpts from plays--by Maxine Hong Kingston, Darrell Lum, and Bill Wu, among others--examine the problems faced by Asian-American teenagers whose families come from diverse Asian countries and who live in two different cultures.