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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
Gr 6-9 Thirteen years after the publication of Tales from Gold Mountain (Groundwood, 1999), Yee returns with these 10 ghost stories, all infused with the experiences of Chinese immigrants who came in search of wealth in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. In "Seawall Sightings," a woman comes to meet her lover in 1912, only to be imprisoned by the Department of Immigration for illegally entering the country. In ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
A Chinese laborer's despair over the wealth that eludes him in California's goldfields turns to rage when he kills his childhood friend for gold. A spoiled boy, expected to support his parents with earnings in the New World, sells his soul for courage to work in the darkest depths of a coal mine. A simple Chinese vegetable peddler dies of grief and returns to haunt the house of the white child who set his beloved horse on fire. A feckless son who leaves an easy life in Hong Kong to help his tightfisted, hardworking father run a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
