num_pages: 32
description: Winner of the Governor General's Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz AwardThis powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them.But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born.
language: English
title: Ghost Train
titlecomplete: Ghost Train
genres: Picture Books, Canada, China, Multicultural Literature, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 99
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award
category: Children's Picture Book, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Children's Literature — Text
publisher: Groundwood Books