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

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Running Time: 05:18 hrs

Narrator: Barbara Quan

Publisher:
Crane Library, 2015

Details:

Author: Chan, Gillian

Date:

Created
2004

Summary:
In 1922, in the Chinatown district of Vancouver, British Columbia, twelve-year-old Chin Mei Ling and her father work several jobs to save money for the "Head Tax" that will allow her mother and baby brother to immigrate from China.

Genre:
Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction

Subject(s): Canada | Chinese

Original Publisher: Markham, ON, Scholastic Canada

Language(s): English

Collection(s)/Series: BC Summer Reading Club 2015 | BC Summer Reading Club 2015