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.

Grade Interest level
: 
5-8

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.


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StratfordF YEEBook30577000225905Fiction