Title: The iron dragon
Subtitle: the courageous story of Lee Chin
First published: 2010
Description: Teenager Lee Chin leaves China and goes to California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where he defies his father's wishes, saves his money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, and brings her to join him in order to begin a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.
Subjects: Fiction, Chinese, Chinese Americans, Juvenile fiction, History, Railroads, Emigration and immigration, Historical fiction, Immigration and emigration, Children's fiction, Chinese americans, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Railroads, fiction, Sierra nevada (calif. and nev.), fiction
Places: United States, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), California
Time periods: 1850-1950, 19th century
LC classification: PZ7.P94965 Ir 2010