Most Popular Books by Laurence Yep

Standing beside his father, a man he hardly knew, at Angel Island in front of the immigration officials, ten-year-old Gim Lew fears the worst when the time comes for his father to answer very important questions that will decide their fates, in a dramatic tale about the process of Chinese American immigration.

Will the Lees celebrate Christmas? Everyone else in their small town in West Virginia is getting ready for Christmas, but Joan''s parents won''t let her and her siblings celebrate: Christmas is not Chinese. Then their father finally promises they can go to a neighbor''s Christmas party, but only if none of them misbehaves at all in the weeks before the holiday. If only he was as generous as Joan''s friend Victoria''s father! Continuing the story of the Lees begun in The Star Fisher, Dream Soul is a touching story of love, loyalty, and the importance of family.

When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco''s Chinatown.

Teddy''s idea of a good vacation is a triple-feature at the movie theater. So when his uncle invites him to go camping, he is more than a little reluctant. To make matters worse, his know-it-all little brother, Bobby, is coming, too. Teddy practices his camping skills in his Chinatown apartment and watches Wilderness Scout for tips, but nothing can prepare him for his meeting with Mother Nature. Soon Teddy, Bobby, and Uncle Curtis find themselves in the woods, sleeping on rocks, and battling raccoons, mosquitoes, and poison oak. Through it all, Teddy is determined to prove he is just as smart as his little brother. But the worst is yet to come. A hike leaves them lost in the woods-and is that a skunk coming down the path?

In this latest chapter of the acclaimed series by the two-time Newbery Honor author, tensions between the American miners and their Chinese rivals are high in a small mining town. But two young outcasts forge an unexpected friendship that saves them from the town''s hatred.

A boy with a face so sad that nobody wants to look at him runs away with a caravan of giants to the city of dragons, where his sorrowful face is finally appreciated.

Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.

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.

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.

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.

While his father is away, Little Lee fights to save his mother''s soul from an evil fox spirit.

As her parents'' arguments become more frequent, Robin looks forward to the visits that she and her grandmother make to Chinatown, where they pretend to be an elderly cook''s family, giving Robin new insights into her Chinese heritage.

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.

An evocative retelling of a 17th century Chinese fable by Yep and a wonderful reminder that good stories are ageless, linking our children with those of past generations and those not yet born.

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.

Grade Level 6.6; Book Number 111; Points 12.