{"product_id":"dragons-gate-a-newbery-honor-award-winner-9780064404891","title":"Dragon's Gate: A Newbery Honor Award Winner","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYep, Laurence:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLaurence 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 \u003cem\u003eDragonwings\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDragon's Gate\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906\u003c\/em\u003e, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and \u003cem\u003eThe Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674643468562,"sku":"9780064404891","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1fd664f-26d3-4cf6-8118-d6c8bc1b2ac2.jpg?v=1733863928","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dragons-gate-a-newbery-honor-award-winner-9780064404891","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}