The Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
This book was a 1994 Newbery Honor winner. It is a sequel to "Mountain Light". It begins with Otter the main character who accidentally kills a Manchu and is forced to join his Dad in California who is one of the many Chinese laborers working on the transcontenal railroad. This is a wonderful book to introduce history along with a wonderfully written literary piece, it really brings the time period of the building of the transcontenal railroad alive. Some other books the Yep has written are:
Hiroshima; The Earth Dragon Awakes : The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906; Dragon of the Lost Sea (Dragons of the Sea Series); Child of the Owl (Golden Mountain Chronicles : 1965)
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