An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling
Titre
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An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-ling
Gillian. Chan
Sommaire
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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
Date de publication comme intervalle
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2004
Dear Canada ; 9
Description matérielle
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212 p. ; 20 cm.
Note générale
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"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922" -- Cover.
Note locale
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Regular
2-Used
[w] 2--Feb/04.
Book
Informations sur le programme
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Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 7.0 76294
7.3
Terme de vedette-matière
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Chinese Canadians -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
Canadian authors.
Terme géographique
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Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Canadian historical fiction.
Résumé
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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?
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9780779113538
Informations de publication
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Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2004.
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
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| Gold Bar | F DEA | Book | 30127000062724 | Fiction |