Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
Casey is waiting for the day that her father hits it big. When that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse for her. However, when he ends up in hospital, Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother Paw Paw, where she slowly begins to find her Chinese history.
Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780064403368 |
| ISBN 10 | 006440336X |
| Title | Child of the Owl |
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| Series | Golden Mountain Chronicles Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1991-12-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Fiction) 1977 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |