An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling

Title
An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling

Personal Author EPSB
Gillian. Chan

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
Dear Canada ; 9

Physical Description
212 p. ; 20 cm.

Note
"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922" -- Cover.

Note (Local)
Regular
 
2-Used
 
[w] 2--Feb/04.
 
Book

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 7.0 76294
 
7.3

Subject
Immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Chinese Canadians -- Fiction.
 
Diaries -- Fiction.
 
Canadian authors.

Geographic Term
Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.
 
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Canadian historical fiction.

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?

ISBN
9780779113538

Publisher
Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2004.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Gold BarF DEABook30127000062724Fiction