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.
Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American
Combining poems, stories, and a short play, a collection of Asian works features the writings of such authors as Maxine Hong Kingston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and is divided into five thematic sections. Reprint.
General
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9780064406031
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| Fiction/Non-Fiction |
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Fiction
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Trophy Pr
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| List Price |
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$7.99
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09/01/1995
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Out of Print
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Paperback
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English
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Height: 7.5 Inches (US)
Width: 5 Inches (US)
Thickness: 0.75 Inches (US)
Unit Weight: 0.35 Pounds (US)
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| Grade Range |
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7 - 9
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| Editor |
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Yep, Laurence
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