Will Windrider take to the skies?Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father， Windrider， in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met.But Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider， with Moon Shadow s help is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese， the poverty， the separation from his wife and country even the great earthquake to make his dream come true. 1976 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children s Books of 1971–1975 (ALA)1976 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction1976 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)"Best of the Best" Children s Books 1966–1978 (SLJ)Outstanding Children s Books of 1975 (NYT)1976 Children s Book Award (IRA)Children s Choices for 1976 (IRA/CBC)Notable 1975 Children s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)1976 Carter G. Woodson Award (NCSS)1976 Jane Addams Children s Book Award Honor Book1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf AwardChildren s Books of 1975 (Library of Congress)1979 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)1995 Phoenix Award (Children s Literature Association)