The star maker

Label

The star maker

Statement of responsibility

Laurence Yep

Creator

• Yep, Laurence., 1948
• Yep, Laurence, 1948-

Subject

• Chinese New Year -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
• Uncles -- Fiction.
• Family life -- California | San Francisco -- Fiction.
• Families -- California | San Francisco -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
• Uncles -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
• Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chinese New Year -- Fiction.
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Genre

• Fiction.
• Juvenile fiction.

Language

eng

Summary

With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story

Subject

• Chinese American boys
• Firecrackers
• Historical fiction
• Money
• Uncles
• Chinese American families
• Chinese New Year
• Bullying and bullies
• San Francisco, California -- History -- 20th century
• Chinatown, San Francisco, California -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Historical fiction

Story line

• Character-driven

Character

• Culturally diverse

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.Y44

LC item number

Su 2011

Literary form

fiction

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• 3
• 6

Nature of contents

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Target audience

pre adolescent