Name: Child of the Owl

Author: Laurence Yep
Year: 1977
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Young adult, Historical fiction, Award winners
Culture: China

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ISBNs:
9780064403368
006440336X
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.
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"The Serpent's Children"
First published in 1984
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"Sea Glass"
First published in 1979
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"Dragonwings"
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