Paperback, 335 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2001 by HarperTrophy.
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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.
Subjects
- Chinese -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Railroads -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Newbery Honor -- 1994