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Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Otter flees China to join his Uncle Foxfire and adopted father Squeaky as they help build the transcontinental railroad in the Sierra Nevada's. Overjoyed to finally be in the land of freedom, Otter's dreams are shattered when he experiences the prejudice, ill-treatment, and hard labor forced on the Chinese immigrant workers., When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
| Details | | Series: | Newbery Honor Book |
| Size | | Length: | 273 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "By the summer of 1865, the North had finally defeated the South in the Civil War, and America works for even greater union. During the war, Abraham Lincoln set in motion a plan to build a transcontinental railroad that will effectively join the western half of America to the eastern half. In 1863, one railroad, the Union Pacific, has begun building westward from Omaha. In that same year, the Central Pacific has started eastward from California. However, in two years, it has only built thirty-one miles of track. By February 1865, the railroad is so desperate that it has begun experimenting with using Chinese crews."
Industry Reviews
"Told with humanity and compassion...a tribute to the survival and courage of these immigrants."
1994 Newbery Award Committee
"An engaging survival-adventure story, a social history, a heroic quest."
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