Red means good fortune
Subtitle: a story of San Francisco Chinatown
By: by Barbara Diamond Goldin ; illustrated by Wenhai Ma.
Contributors: Ma, Wenhai, ill.
Series: Once upon America; Once upon America book.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Description: Twelve-year-old Jin Mun, working for his father's laundry in San Francisco Chinatown, is shocked to discover that one of his neighbors is a slave girl, forbidden to leave her house.
Notes: "Ages 7-11"--Front cover flap.
Table of contents: title: Meeting Lew Wai Hing; title: Chin Jin Mun's world; title: Older brother' letter; title: Trouble; title: Just a boy; title: The red lantern; title: Two letters; title: Red means good luck.