An ocean apart, a world away
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Lensey Namioka.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Cornell University -- Fiction; Chinese -- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction; a Chinese -- New York (State) -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.
Notes: Companion volume to: Ties that bind, ties that break.