Walk across the sea
Title
:
Walk across the sea
Personal Author EPSB
:
Susan, Fletcher
Summary
:
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Year Published
:
2001
Physical Description
:
x, 214 p ; 22 cm.
Edition
:
1st ed.
Note (Local)
:
Regular
1-New
Book
Reading Grade level
:
5.2.
Grade Interest level
:
7-10
Program Information
:
Accelerated Reader 4.3 5.0 Quiz
Gr. 4-6
Accelerated Reader 4.3 5.0
Awards
:
Young Reader's Choice Awards Nominee for 2004.
Subject
:
Prejudices -- Fiction.
Christian life -- Fiction.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Lighthouses -- Fiction.
History--fiction
Christian Life - Fiction
California--fiction
California - History - 1850-1950-Juvenile Fiction
California - History - 1850-1950 - Fiction.
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile (historical) fiction.
Christian groups -- California -- 1850-1950 -- Communities -- Juvenile (historical) fiction.
Chinese immigrant families -- California -- 1850-1950 -- Encounters with Caucasians -- Juvenile (historical) fiction.
Historical fiction
Chinese Americans - Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction.
California -- History.
Curriculum Objective
:
Social studies. Character education. local
Young readers choice 2004. local
Summary
:
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Publisher
:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| George P. Nicholson | F FLE | Book | 31004000039391 | Fiction |
| George P. Nicholson | F FLE | Book | 31004000039417 | Fiction |