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Dragon's Gate: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

by Laurence Yep

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A young immigrant’s ambitions in 1867 California

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A young immigrant’s ambitions in 1867 California

Set in 1867, Laurence Yep’s historical novel follows Otter from a village in China to California, where he hopes to reunite with family. The landscape he encounters is far colder and less golden than he imagined, and family ties do not immediately make him feel at home among the Chinese community. Otter also carries a larger ambition: to learn about new technology and bring that knowledge back to China. The train becomes a turning point in his journey, linking his personal hopes with the book’s broader themes of migration, belonging, and technological change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in historical fiction set in 19th-century California.
  • Readers curious about stories of Chinese migration and the challenges of belonging in a new place.
  • Readers interested in a young protagonist’s hopes for learning and bringing knowledge home. н

Themes

Migration and belongingFamily tiesTechnology and change19th-century Chinese and Chinese American history

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Book overview

In 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.
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.
Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.
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