In this essay, I will be talking about Dragonwings. Dragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975. It inaugurated the Golden Mountain Chronicles and it is the fifth chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012. Dragonwings is a work of historical fiction that combines Chinese folklore about dragons with real historical events such as Chinese immigration to California, the great earthquake of 1906, and the story of a father and son who want to fly a plane. This Is My Essay About Dragonwings.