A01=Paul Yee
A12=Harvey Chan
adaptability
American history
Asian American protagonist
Author_Harvey Chan
Author_Paul Yee
award-winning
Category=YFB
CC Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
CC Literature Key Ideas and Details
Chinese history
Common Core aligned
compassion
connecting
culture and heritage
death and bereavement
determining importance
emigration and immigration
eq_bestseller
eq_childrens
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_teenage-young-adult
exploration and adventure
fiction
ghosts
Governor General's Literary Award
grade 3
grade 4
magical realism
perseverance
picture book
railway
Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award
third person
Product details
- ISBN 9780888992574
- Weight: 496g
- Dimensions: 228 x 304mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. Will Choon-yi find a way to make peace with her father's death? Ghostly, magical, and redeeming, this masterful tale is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan.
