Paul Yee was born 1 October 1956 in Spalding, Saskatchewan and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of British Columbia and worked for the city of Vancouver as an archivist. Yee has lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1988.

Books by Paul Yee

	1983 Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter! Four linked stories set in Vancouver's Chinatown.
	1986 The Curses of Third Uncle Lillian Ho must find her missing father.
	1988 Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
	1989 Tales from Gold Mountain Eight short stories.
	1991 Roses Sing on New Snow A girl is an excellent chef but her brothers are given the credit.
	1994 Breakaway A boy hopes to escape farm life by winning a soccer scholarship.
	1996 Ghost Train
	1996 Struggle and Hope: The Chinese in Canada
	1998 The Boy in the Attic
	2001 Fly Away
	2002 Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories
	2002 Jade Necklace
	2003 Bone Collector's Son
	2003 If Walls Could Talk
	2004 A Song for Ba Wei Lim helps his father learn a new part for the Chinese opera.
	2004 The Lost Spike
	2005 Bamboo
	2005 Chinatown
	2006 What Happened This Summer
	2007 Shu-Li and Tamara
	2008 Learning to Fly
	2009 Shu-Li and Diego
	2010 Blood and Iron
	2011 The Secret Keepers
	2011 Money Boy
	2011 Jade in the Coal
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Awards

• Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
  • 2006 – Bamboo – Shortlisted

• Golden Oak Award
  • 2004 – Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Children's Literature
  • 1996 – Ghost Train – Winner

• Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award: Fiction
  • 2000 – Ghost Train – Shortlisted

• Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
  • 1989 – Saltwater City – Shortlisted

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
  • 1987 – The Curses of Third Uncle – Shortlisted
  • 1990 – Tales From Gold Mountain – Winner
  • 1999 – The Boy in the Attic – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site

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Added 14 November 2005.
Updated 08 June 2013.