An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling
Título
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An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling
Gillian. Chan
Resumen
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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?
Gold mountain diary of Chin Mei-Ling
THE GOLD MOUNTAIN DIARY OF CHIN MEI-LING
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
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2004
Dear Canada ; 9
Descripción física
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212 p. ; 20 cm.
Nota general
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"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922" -- Cover.
Nota local
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Regular
2-Used
[w] 2--Feb/04.
Book
Información del programa
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Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 7.0 76294
7.3
Término de la materia
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Chinese Canadians -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
Canadian authors.
Término geográfico
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Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Género
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Historical fiction.
Canadian historical fiction.
Síntesis
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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
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9780779113538
Información de publicación
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Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2004.
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| Gold Bar | F DEA | Book | 30127000062724 | Fiction |