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28-580: (Redirected from Sweet Water ) [REDACTED] Look up sweetwater , sweet water , or Sweetwater in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sweetwater or Sweet Water may refer to: Freshwater Places [ edit ] In the United States [ edit ] Sweet Water, Alabama Sweetwater, Arizona Sweetwater River (California) , San Diego County Sweetwater Dam ,

56-480: A Chinese laundry . After struggling through the Great Depression , Yep's family moved to a multicultural but predominantly African American neighborhood. Yep grew up working in the family grocery store, where he recalls learning early on "how to observe and listen to people, how to relate to others. It was good training for a writer." Yep was named by his older brother Thomas, who had just been studying

84-689: A place in Florida Sweet Water, Illinois Sweetwater, Georgia Sweetwater, Idaho Sweetwater, Missouri Sweetwater, Nebraska Sweetwater, Nevada Sweetwater, New Jersey Sweetwater, Oklahoma Sweetwater, Tennessee Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater Swatters , a baseball team based in Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater County, Wyoming Sweetwater River (Wyoming) Sweetwater Township, Michigan Sweetwater Township, Clay County, North Carolina Elsewhere [ edit ] Sweetwater, London ,

112-559: A place in Florida Sweet Water, Illinois Sweetwater, Georgia Sweetwater, Idaho Sweetwater, Missouri Sweetwater, Nebraska Sweetwater, Nevada Sweetwater, New Jersey Sweetwater, Oklahoma Sweetwater, Tennessee Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater Swatters , a baseball team based in Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater County, Wyoming Sweetwater River (Wyoming) Sweetwater Township, Michigan Sweetwater Township, Clay County, North Carolina Elsewhere [ edit ] Sweetwater, London ,

140-483: A science fiction magazine at the age of 18 while still in high school . His English teacher, a Jesuit priest , motivated him to submit his story to magazines until it got published if he wanted to get an A grade. This experience inspired Yep to first consider what a career in writing might be like, even though he had always been fascinated with machines and wanted to become a chemist. Yep graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory in 1966. His decision to become

168-757: A 1960s band Sweetwater (album) Sweet Water (band) , a 1990s American band, or their debut album Sweetwaters Music Festival , a festival in New Zealand Schools [ edit ] Sweet Water High School , Sweet Water, Alabama Sweetwater High School (National City, California) Sweetwater Union High School District , California Sweetwater City Schools , a school district of Sweetwater, Tennessee Sweetwater Independent School District , Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater County School District Number 1 , Wyoming Sweetwater County School District Number 2 , Wyoming Other uses [ edit ] Sweetwater (grape) or Chasselas,

196-686: A 1960s band Sweetwater (album) Sweet Water (band) , a 1990s American band, or their debut album Sweetwaters Music Festival , a festival in New Zealand Schools [ edit ] Sweet Water High School , Sweet Water, Alabama Sweetwater High School (National City, California) Sweetwater Union High School District , California Sweetwater City Schools , a school district of Sweetwater, Tennessee Sweetwater Independent School District , Sweetwater, Texas Sweetwater County School District Number 1 , Wyoming Sweetwater County School District Number 2 , Wyoming Other uses [ edit ] Sweetwater (grape) or Chasselas,

224-694: A BA in 1970. He later earned a PhD in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo . Growing up, Yep often felt torn between mainstream American culture and his Chinese roots, a theme he has often written about. A great deal of his work involves characters feeling alienated or not fitting into their environment, something Yep has said he struggled with since childhood: "I was too American to fit into Chinatown , and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else." During his writing career, Yep also taught creative writing and Asian-American studies at

252-696: A Time in the West Sweetwater, a fictional town in Westworld Literature [ edit ] Sweetwater , 1973 novel by Laurence Yep Sweetwater , 1976 novel by Knut Faldbakken The Sweetwater , 1976 novel by Jean Rikhoff Sweetwater, a character in At Heaven's Gate by Robert Penn Warren Ned Sweetwater, a character in the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard Music [ edit ] Sweetwater (band) ,

280-455: A Time in the West Sweetwater, a fictional town in Westworld Literature [ edit ] Sweetwater , 1973 novel by Laurence Yep Sweetwater , 1976 novel by Knut Faldbakken The Sweetwater , 1976 novel by Jean Rikhoff Sweetwater, a character in At Heaven's Gate by Robert Penn Warren Ned Sweetwater, a character in the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard Music [ edit ] Sweetwater (band) ,

308-870: A dam across the Sweetwater River Sweetwater Reservoir , an artificial lake, formed by Sweetwater Dam Sweetwater Mountains a small mountain range in California and western Nevada Sweetwater Formation , a geologic stratigraphic formation in California Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida Sweetwater, Duval County, Florida , a place in Florida Sweetwater Ranch, Florida , an unincorporated community in Hardee County Sweetwater, Liberty County, Florida ,

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336-489: A dam across the Sweetwater River Sweetwater Reservoir , an artificial lake, formed by Sweetwater Dam Sweetwater Mountains a small mountain range in California and western Nevada Sweetwater Formation , a geologic stratigraphic formation in California Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida Sweetwater, Duval County, Florida , a place in Florida Sweetwater Ranch, Florida , an unincorporated community in Hardee County Sweetwater, Liberty County, Florida ,

364-528: A fictional ruined city in Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Sweetwater Dam Naval Outlying Landing Field See also [ edit ] Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, Indiana Sewickley, Pennsylvania , translated as Sweetwater Sweetwater Canal (disambiguation) Sweetwater Creek (disambiguation) Sweetwater River (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

392-478: A fictional ruined city in Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Sweetwater Dam Naval Outlying Landing Field See also [ edit ] Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, Indiana Sewickley, Pennsylvania , translated as Sweetwater Sweetwater Canal (disambiguation) Sweetwater Creek (disambiguation) Sweetwater River (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

420-789: A grape varietal SweetWater Brewing Company a brewery in Atlanta, Georgia Sweetwater Brewery , a brewery in Green River, Wyoming Sweetwater Casino , a casino in Mullica Township, New Jersey Sweetwater Inn , an inn in McDuffie County, Georgia Sweetwater Mansion , a plantation house in Florence, Alabama Sweetwater Sound , a musical instrument and equipment retailer Nathaniel Clifton or Sweetwater (1922–1990), American basketball player Sweet Water,

448-486: A grape varietal SweetWater Brewing Company a brewery in Atlanta, Georgia Sweetwater Brewery , a brewery in Green River, Wyoming Sweetwater Casino , a casino in Mullica Township, New Jersey Sweetwater Inn , an inn in McDuffie County, Georgia Sweetwater Mansion , a plantation house in Florence, Alabama Sweetwater Sound , a musical instrument and equipment retailer Nathaniel Clifton or Sweetwater (1922–1990), American basketball player Sweet Water,

476-470: A town to be built on the site of Olympic Park, London Film and television [ edit ] Sweetwater (2023 film) , an American sports biographical film Sweetwater (2013 film) , an American western film Sweetwater (1983 film) , an American film starring Diane Ladd Sweetwater (1988 film) , a Norwegian film starring Petronella Barker Sweetwater, a fictional ranch in Once Upon

504-415: A town to be built on the site of Olympic Park, London Film and television [ edit ] Sweetwater (2023 film) , an American sports biographical film Sweetwater (2013 film) , an American western film Sweetwater (1983 film) , an American film starring Diane Ladd Sweetwater (1988 film) , a Norwegian film starring Petronella Barker Sweetwater, a fictional ranch in Once Upon

532-520: A writer did not come until he entered college at Marquette University . There he became friends with a literary magazine editor, Joanne Ryder, whom he eventually married. She introduced him to children's literature and later encouraged him to write a book for children while she was working at Harper & Row . The result was his first science fiction novel for teens entitled Sweetwater , published by Harper & Row in 1973. After two years at Marquette, Yep transferred to UC Santa Cruz where he earned

560-544: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages sweetwater [REDACTED] Look up sweetwater , sweet water , or Sweetwater in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sweetwater or Sweet Water may refer to: Freshwater Places [ edit ] In the United States [ edit ] Sweet Water, Alabama Sweetwater, Arizona Sweetwater River (California) , San Diego County Sweetwater Dam ,

588-731: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Laurence Yep Yep was born in San Francisco , California, in Chinatown to Thomas (Gim Lew) Yep and Franche Lee Yep. His father was a first-generation American born in China who had moved to San Francisco as a boy. His mother was a second-generation Chinese American , was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family ran

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616-858: The Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. It won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 1976, and has been adapted as a play under its original title. Another of the Chronicles, Child of the Owl won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction in 1977. ( The Rainbow People , Yep's collection of short stories based on Chinese folktales and legends,

644-663: The University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara . Yep's most notable collection of works is the Golden Mountain Chronicles , documenting the fictional Young family from 1849 in China to 1995 in America. Two of the series are Newbery Honor Books , or runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal : Dragonwings (Harper & Row, 1975) and Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins, 1993). Dragonwings won

672-679: The biography of Saint Lawrence for school. He spent his early childhood commuting from his neighborhood to a Catholic school in Chinatown for Chinese children, where he was often made fun of by the mostly bilingual students for only knowing how to speak English. Not until high school when Yep attended a less segregated Catholic school did he confront white American culture in person, having grown up among Black and Chinese kids. Although he had always been interested in science, at St. Ignatius College Preparatory , he also became interested in literature and creative writing. Yep published his first story in

700-553: The dilemma of the cultural outsider" with "attention to the complexity and conflict within and across cultures" and it cited four works in particular: Dragonwings , The Rainbow People , The Khan's Daughter , and the autobiographical The Lost Garden . A live-action/CGI TV movie of The Tiger's Apprentice , adapted by David Magee , was being developed by Cartoon Network until it was cancelled after Cartoon Network stopped developing live-action projects. In March 2019, Paramount Pictures announced an animated film adaptation of

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784-515: Was a Horn Book runner-up in 1989.) Yep wrote two other notable series, Chinatown Mysteries and Dragon (1982 to 1992). The latter is an adaptation of Chinese mythology as four fantasy novels. In 2005 the professional children's librarians awarded Yep the Children's Literature Legacy Award , which recognizes an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children". The committee noted that "Yep explores

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