The jade necklace
By: by Paul Yee ; illustrated by Grace Lin.
Contributors: Lin, Grace, ill.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Crocodile Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Family life -- China -- Fiction.; Ocean -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Canada -- Fiction.; Chinese -- Canada -- Fiction.; Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.; China -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.