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In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Age Hold Protection Active/Create Date Status Due Date
Hood River County Library J FIC FLETCHER (Text) 33892200563568 Children's Fiction Book None 06/24/2003 Available -
Parkdale Community Library J FIC FLETCHER (Text) 33892002178177 Children's Fiction Book None 06/24/2003 Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 0689857071 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: x, 214 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Parting waters -- China boy -- Heather's hat -- Contraption -- Blurts -- Someone's sister -- Baby -- Riled -- Bitter cup -- Chinese must go -- Get you from me -- Ill night -- Misery at a distance -- Too kind -- Wah Chung -- Storm -- It would taint us -- Last look back -- Epilogue: Andrew John.
Summary, etc.:
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.

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