Title:
An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Mei-ling lives with her father in Vancouver, but her mother and baby brother are still in China. Mei-Ling works after school, and her father holds down several jobs, in a frantic effort to come up with the head tax that will allow her mother and brother to come to Canada. They must have that money before the Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. Mei-ling cannot stop thinking about what will happen if they are unable to come up with the money to reunite their family?
Other Title:
Gold mountain diary of Chin Mei-Ling
THE GOLD MOUNTAIN DIARY OF CHIN MEI-LING
Year Published:
2004
Series:
Physical Description:
212 p. ; 20 cm.
Note:
"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922" -- Cover.
Note (Local):
Regular
2-Used
[w] 2--Feb/04.
Book
Reading Grade level:
RL6
Grade Interest level:
5-9.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 7.0 76294
7.3
ISBN:
9780779113538
Publisher:
Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2004.
