Dragon's Gate
New York, NY : HarperCollins, [1993]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
Subjects:
Chinese -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Railroads -- History -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Chinese -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Railroads -- History -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
0060229713
Includes bibliographical references.
John Newbery Medal Honor, 1994.
John Newbery Medal Honor, 1994.