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

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

Gillian. Chan

摘要
: 
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

出版日期范围
: 
2004

Dear Canada ; 9

物理描述
: 
212 p. ; 20 cm.

一般注释
: 
"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922" -- Cover.

本地注释
: 
Regular
 
2-Used
 
[w] 2--Feb/04.
 
Book

RL6

5-9.

程序信息
: 
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 7.0 76294
 
7.3

主题词汇
: 
Immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Chinese Canadians -- Fiction.
 
Diaries -- Fiction.
 
Canadian authors.

地理术语
: 
Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.
 
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

类别
: 
Historical fiction.
 
Canadian historical fiction.

Social Studies 6 C local
 
Social. 7.2. local

摘要
: 
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

出版信息
: 
Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2004.


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