Has anyone read any Laurence Yep?

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#1

If so, maybe you can help me out. I read a lot of his books around 5th/6th grade and I loved him. Something tonight reminded me of part of a book that I think was his, maybe Dragonwings. I’m just remembering something about salt, maybe a great plain of salt, and it either helping or hindering a dragon perhaps. These details seem so specific to me but I can’t place where they’re from. Maybe I’m thinking of something else entirely!

One of these days I have to clean out my book collection and try to find those copies.

#2

I think that would be Dragon of the Lost Sea where Shimmer, a princess of a tribe of dragons whose ocean home was dried up has to enlist some characters to help her get it back. There’s a whole series about it, simply called Dragon series, I think. It gets bigger with a war and some nifty plot twists, but hidiously depressing at the same time. The books were *Dragon of the Lost Sea, Dragon Gate, Dragon Cauldron, * and Dragon War. He wrote a few other Dragon-- books, but I think these are the ones you’re looking for.

#3

I definitely have Dragon of the Lost Sea somewhere, I’ll have to find it, but I never heard of those other three.

But anyway, can you think of any explanation for why I’m thinking of salt as being significant?

#4

I’m thinking because when Shimmer’s Inland Sea home-place dried up, it turned into a giant plain of salt. (Seawater - water = salt) I think there was something important about it in the book, but all I remember is them camping out there for a few nights.