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

Reading Grade level
: 
RL6

Grade Interest level
: 
5-9.

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.

Curriculum Objective
: 
Social Studies 6 C local
 
Social. 7.2. local

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.


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