Blood and iron : building the railway

Title
Blood and iron : building the railway

Personal Author EPSB
Paul. Yee

Summary
Fourteen-year-old Lee Heen-gwong records his thoughts and experiences in his journal after his family's gambling debts force him to travel from China to Canada to work on building the railway there in the 1880s.

Other Title
Building the Railway

Year Published
2010

Series
I am Canada

Physical Description
233 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.

Note
"Lee Heen-gwong, British Columbia, 1882"--Cover.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 7.0 140028
 
Gr. 7+

Corporate Subject
Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History -- Fiction.

Subject
Chinese -- History -- Fiction.
 
Chinese -- Canada -- History -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.
 
Diary fiction.

Genre
Diary fiction.

Summary
Fourteen-year-old Lee Heen-gwong records his thoughts and experiences in his journal after his family's gambling debts force him to travel from China to Canada to work on building the railway there in the 1880s.

ISBN
9780545985932

Publisher
Toronto, Ont. ; New York : Scholastic Canada, c2010.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
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