Staking a Claim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staking a Claim write by Laurence Yep. This book was released on 2013. Staking a Claim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852
Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852 write by Laurence Yep. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep's incredible JOURNAL OF WONG MING-CHUNG is now in paperback with a stunning repackaging! In 1852, during the height of the California Gold Rush, ten-year-old Wong makes the dangerous trip to America to live with his uncle, exchanging the famine and war of his native country for brutal bullies and grueling labor in America, Wong joins his uncle and countless others in the effort to strike it rich on the great "Golden Mountain." Unfortunately, he, and most of the rest of the dreamers, soon discover that there's no such thing as a Golden Mountain, only dirt, mud, and occasionally tiny flecks of gold dust--flecks that are to be turned over to the owners of the mines, in return for barely livable wages. However, someone as clever and resourceful as Wong will have to find other ingenious ways of making money if they're going to make it in America. But can they overcome the bitter, racist white Americans to find success?
Staking a Claim
Staking a Claim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staking a Claim write by Laurence Yep. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Staking a Claim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Chinese miner, California, 1852"--Cover.
Bo-Bo's Cave of Gold
Bo-Bo's Cave of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bo-Bo's Cave of Gold write by Pam Berkman. This book was released on 2020-04-28. Bo-Bo's Cave of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To save their family, Bo-Bo, a golden mutt, and her human brother Sheng must find a legendary treasure during the California Gold Rush in this second book of the At the Heels of History series, inspired by important events and told through the eyes, ears, and noses of dogs. California, 1852. Sage, a golden, big-hearted mutt, is abandoned by her pack. She is about to give up hope when a silly bird squawks her out of her sadness and leads her to Sheng, a young gold prospector. Sheng renames her Bo-Bo, the Chinese word for treasure, and they soon become inseparable. When Bo-Bo frees a caged bear, the bear’s owner—who is also a cruel tax collector—demands a huge price from Sheng for losing the bear. But where can Bo-Bo and Sheng find that much gold? Their only chance is a fabled cave rumored to be filled with treasure. But the cave is supposedly located across the foothills, on a path loaded with danger. Will Bo-Bo and Sheng find it in time?
Anacaona, Golden Flower
Anacaona, Golden Flower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anacaona, Golden Flower write by Edwidge Danticat. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Anacaona, Golden Flower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers a powerful Royal Diaries volume with the story of Haiti’s heroic queen. With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti’s beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island’s rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492.The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people. “A gripping story that shows European invasion from a native Caribbean viewpoint . . . readers will connect with Danticat’s immediate, poetic language, Anacaona’s finely drawn growing pains, and the powerful, graphic story that adds a vital perspective to the literature about Columbus and European expansion in the Americas.” —Booklist “Explores the life of a proud, young Taíno woman as she grows into rulership, love, and motherhood . . . The arrival of Columbus’s explorers marks a major turning point in the novel, and Danticat shifts from a languid, poetic style to a tense, high gear that makes it difficult to put the book down.” —Historical Novel Society
