Laurence Yep Books
The Tom Sawyer fires
By Laurence Yep
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...
Read MoreThe star fisher
By Laurence Yep
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.
Read MoreThe Lost Garden
By Laurence Yep
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.
Read MoreLater, Gator
By Laurence Yep
Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother Bobby an alligator for his birthday.
Read MoreThe man who tricked a ghost
By Laurence Yep
Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.
Read MoreSweetwater
By Laurence Yep
A boy and his people, colonists on the planet Harmony, try to save their way of life.
Read MoreChild of the owl
By Laurence Yep
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Read MoreDragon Cauldron
By Laurence Yep
A dragon named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend the magic cauldron needed to repair the dragon's home.
Read MoreThe Case of the Lion Dance
By Laurence Yep
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.
Read MoreIl caso del ristorante cinese
By Laurence Yep
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.
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