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Laurence Yep is the author of The Serpent's Children (1996), Later, Gator (1995), Dragon War (1994), The Ghost Fox (1994), The Boy who Swallowed Snakes (1994).

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The Serpent's Children

release date: Aug 16, 1996
The Serpent's Children
When villagers call Cassia and her brother, Foxfire, "the serpent's children," they mean it as an insult. But to Cassia it is an honor, for legend says that once a serpent sets her mind on something, she never gives up. And in a time when famine, drought, and violence mark her family's life, Cassia has nothing less than survival to fight for. Their father is a revolutionary, determined to free China from invaders. Foxfire, certain he'll find a mountain of gold, flees to a faraway land. Cassia will need all of her strength and wisdom to keep her family together, and to prove that she is truly the serpent's child.

Later, Gator

release date: May 08, 1995
Later, Gator
Newbery Honor winner Laurence Yep draws upon his memories of growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown to create an unusual story of sibling rivalry and self-discovery. When Teddy buys an alligator for his younger brother Bobby as a spiteful birthday present, he never imagines how much they will both come to love the beast.

Dragon War

release date: May 27, 1994
Dragon War
The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home.

The Ghost Fox

release date: Jan 01, 1994
The Ghost Fox
While his father is away, Little Lee fights to save his mother''s soul from an evil fox spirit.

The Boy who Swallowed Snakes

release date: Jan 01, 1994
The Boy who Swallowed Snakes
An honest young boy tries to get rid of an ever-increasing number of snakes that have come with the bowlful of silver coins he found.

American Dragons

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Dragon's Gate

release date: Jan 01, 1993

The Man who Tricked a Ghost

release date: Jan 01, 1993
The Man who Tricked a Ghost
Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.

The Rainbow People

release date: Aug 30, 1992
The Rainbow People
"Culled from 69 stories collected in a [1930s] WPA project, [these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like ''Tricksters'' or ''Virtues and Vices,'' each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep''s telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection." —K. Notable Children''s Books of 1989 (ALA) The USA Through Children''s Books 1990 (ALA) 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 1990 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1989 Children''s Editors'' Choices (BL) Notable 1989 Children''s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children''s Books of 1989 (Library of Congress) 1989 Children''s Books (NY Public Library) "The Best Books" 1989 (Parents Magazine)

The Star Fisher

release date: Jan 01, 1992
The Star Fisher
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.

Child of the Owl

release date: Oct 30, 1990
Child of the Owl
Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- ''cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it''s the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever. Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She''s not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father. But Paw-Paw tells her about the mother Casey never knew, and about her family''s owl charm and her true Chinese name. And Casey at last begins to understand that this -- Paw-Paw''s Chinatown home, her parents'' home -- is her home,too.

The Lost Garden

release date: Jan 01, 1990
The Lost Garden
Memoir by the Chinese-American writer who grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s.

The Curse of the Squirrel

release date: Jan 01, 1989
The Curse of the Squirrel
From the time a giant squirrel curses Farmer Johnson''s best hunting dog, things are never the same around the farm, and hunting little animals ceases to be a sport.

The Mark Twain Murders

The Mark Twain Murders
In the summer of 1864, a teen-age boy meets reporter Mark Twain in San Francisco after a murder, and agrees to help him get the story.

The Tom Sawyer Fires

The Tom Sawyer Fires
The fifteen-year-old narrator relates how, with his help, cub reporter, Mark Twain, and fire fighter, Tom Sawyer, uncover the plot of a deranged Southern arsonist in San Francisco during the Civil War.

Kind Hearts and Gentle Monsters

Kind Hearts and Gentle Monsters
Charley Sabini, who thinks with his head, meets Chris Pomeroy, who thinks with her feelings, and the result is a friendship which is a surprise to both of them.
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