Dragon Road (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #6) Free Download By Laurence Yep
| Title | : | Dragon Road (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #6) |
| Author | : | Laurence Yep |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 320 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0060275200 |
Best friends Cal and Barney are down and out in Chinatown In the America of 1939, they are trapped by invisible barriers created by racial prejudice With no jobs and no real homes, it s only their wizardry with a basketball that s let them survive this long.That same skill suddenly flings a door open to fame and fortune when a professional basketball team, the Dragons, i Best friends Cal and Barney are down and out in Chinatown In the America of 1939, they are trapped by invisible barriers created by racial prejudice With no jobs and no real homes, it s only their wizardry with a basketball that s let them survive this long.That same skill suddenly flings a door open to fame and fortune when a professional basketball team, the Dragons, invites them to join the team Soon they re barnstorming across America and taking on all comers from local amateurs to other professional teams like the Harlem Globetrotters.On that long, difficult road, they must battle rowdy teams and their even rougher fans on makeshift courts Cal, aka Flash, and the team must also overcome terrible weather, crumbling highways, and their own disintegrating car As the tour starts to fall apart, the tension between Cal and the team s jealous captain comes to a head Suddenly Cal must choose between loyalty to his teammates and the pursuit of his own celebrity.Inspired by the pioneering professional Chinese American basketball team the Hong Wah Kues, Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep re creates a colorful era of barnstorming basketball and leads readers through the heartache and glory of the dragon road
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Born June 14, 1948 in San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep Franche Lee, her family s youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry Yep s father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood After Born June 14, 1948 in San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep Franche Lee, her family s youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry Yep s father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood After troubling times during the Depression, he was able to open a grocery store in an African American neighborhood Growing up in San Francisco, Yep felt alienated He was in his own words his neighborhood s all purpose Asian and did not feel he had a culture of his own Joanne Ryder, a children s book author, and Yep met and became friends during college while she was his editor They later married and now live in San Francisco.Although not living in Chinatown, Yep commuted to a parochial bilingual school there Other students at the school, according to Yep, labeled him a dumbbell Chinese because he spoke only English During high school he faced the white American culture for the first time However, it was while attending high school that he started writing for a science fiction magazine, being paid one cent a word for his efforts After two years at Marquette University, Yep transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated in 1970 with a B.A He continued on to earn a Ph.D in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975 Today as well as writing, he has taught writing and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara 
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Best friends Cal and Barney are down and out in Chinatown In the America of 1939, they are trapped by invisible barriers created by racial prejudice W
320 pagesLaurence Yep
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