An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-Ling / by Gillian Chan.
Material type:
TextSeries: Dear CanadaPublication details: Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2004.Description: 217 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0779113535
- 9780779113538
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Chinese -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Canada -- History -- 1914-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Vancouver (B.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Dear Can Chan | Available | 33111006781799 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children.
Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl living through a particular period in Canada's past. Gillian Chan's latest addition illustrates the effect the Chinese Head Tax has on one young girl and her family. Mei-ling and her father are struggling to pay the head tax that will allow her mother and brother, who are still living in China, to come to Canada. They must have that money before the impending Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. What will happen if they can't come up with enough in time to reunite their family?
"Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922"--Cover.
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.