Dragon's Gate
A Newbery Honor Award Winner
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 23, 2001
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain.
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- Who it’s for
- A young traveler's hopes meet a new country's strangeness and the promise of a train.
- Themes
- Chinese immigration, Cultural displacement, Technology and national liberation
- Genres
- Historical Asia, 19th-Century U.S., Immigration & Moving
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In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders.
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Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.
Across New Horizons
A young traveler's hopes meet a new country's strangeness and the promise of a train.
Come here for
- A journey between China and California
- A young mind drawn to technology and change
Expect
- The unease of being a stranger among familiar people
- A stark contrast between golden hopes and cold whiteness
Where it sits
| Immigration & Moving | 60% |
|---|---|
| Historical Asia | 42% |
| 19th-Century U.S. | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Survival Stories
- Boys & Men
- US: Asian American Stories
- Multigenerational Families
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- 19th-Century U.S.
- Prejudice & Racism
- Self-Esteem & Resilience
- Immigration & Moving
- Authors
- Laurence Yep
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 23, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Chinese immigration · Cultural displacement · Technology and national liberation
- Reading lane
- Survival Stories