Golden mountain chronicles
Author
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
2)
Mountain light , Golden mountain chronicles volume 2
Author
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
5) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A Chinese immigrant and his son build a flying machine in "an unusual historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco, including the Earthquake, from an immigrant's viewpoint".--School Library Journal. 1976 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1971-1975; 1976 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Books 1975; School Library...
6)
Dragon road , Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Author
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
1990, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
8) Sea glass
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 8
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A Chinese-American boy whose father wants him to be good in sports finally asserts his right to be himself.
9)
Thief of hearts , Golden mountain chronicles volume 9
Author
10) Dragons of Silk
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.