Okei-san
Subtitle: the girl from Wakamatsu
By: by Joan Barton Barsotti ; illustrated by Alpen Kelley.
Contributors: Kelley, Alpen, ill.
Publisher: Barsotti Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Camino, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780964211285
Subjects: Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Nannies -- Fiction; Japanese Americans -- Fiction; Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A small group of Japanese, including sixteen-tear-old Okei, come to California in 1869 hoping to establish a tea and silk colony but when troubles overturn their efforts, the leader and his family return to Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).