Twelve-year-old Glennis just wants her idyllic life back — the way it used to be before her father was sent to prison; before her mother broke down from the stress, and before she and her four siblings were farmed out to friends and relatives. Glennis chooses to live with her flighty Aunt Wanda so she can visit her father in prison and help him prove his innocence. But when things don’t turn out the way she expects, Glennis discovers that she has built her own prison and, in order to free herself, she must learn to accept and forgive.
Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles #5)
Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.
But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow’s help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country to make his dream come true.
Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep’s historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.