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214 pp.
| Atheneum |
November, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-689-84133-7$$16.00
(3)
4-6
As the daughter of a northern California lighthouse keeper in 1884, thirteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully accidentally becomes acquainted with "China boy" Wah Chung. Difficulties--including her mother's miscarriage, her father's rigid inspector, her community's anti-Chinese stance, and an unprecedented storm--force her to make decisions with long-term consequences in this well-knit, believable narrative.