Golden mountain chronicles
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Author
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
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Mountain light , Golden mountain chronicles volume 2
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Author
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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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."
4) The traitor
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
5) Dragonwings
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001?] , 1975.
Language
English
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In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
6) Dragon road
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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Sea glass , Golden mountain chronicles volume 8
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Author
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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When Stacy is paired with a Chinese girl at school who is accused of theft, she must come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.
10) Dragons of silk
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.