An ocean apart : the Gold Mountain diary of Chin Mei-Ling
Chin Mei-Ling keeps a diary of her new life in Vancouver in 1922, as she and her father eagerly await the arrival of her mother and new baby brother.
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Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Diary fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0779113535
- Physical Description 217 pages : illustrations, map.
- Publisher Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada, [2004]
- Copyright ©2004
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Dear Canada: an Ocean Apart
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?