Walk across the sea
By: Susan Fletcher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; Lighthouses -- Fiction.; Christian life -- Fiction.; California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.; California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites,  fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.