Dragon's Gate

By Laurence Yep

# of pages : 333

(Opinion Blog)

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep tells the life of a young boy name Otter. I find this novel heartbreaking because Uncle Foxfire died when he was helping Otter climb a mountain. I feel as if Uncle Foxfire shouldn't have died during this novel. Reading this novel, depressing events happened to otter. For example, Other's adopted dad got blind. It was a truly desperate time. Reading about the coldness, hunger, poverty, and exhaustion they had to endure makes me feel sad for people who worked days and night but not earning very much. Even though life was hard, Otter lived on and endure all the bad things. This shows that he was strong.
(This book was awesome!!!)

 

 The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island

By Laurence Yep

# of pages:  106

 In 1922, ten-year-old Gim Lew is leaving his home and mother in China to join his American born father as a Guest of the Golden Mountain. Gim Lew had to face many struggles, but the hardest struggle is getting to know his estranged father and finding a way to make his father proud of him.

Dragonwings

By Laurence Yep

# of pages: 314

This 314 paged book, Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep is about a young boy name Moon Shadow who moved to America to finally unite with his father Windrider. During many events, Moon Shadow and Windrider worked hard in America. Windrider's dream was to fly. Not before after, Moon shadow and Windrider built a machine called Dragonwings. After completing this machine, Windrider rode in it. He had an accident in it. After this accident, he realized that his family was more important then flying to him. 



Opinion
This book shows that to never give up on your dream. Dragonwings is just a very, very, very awesome book.