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Li Jun and the Iron Road by Anne Tait

Li Jun and the Iron Road

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Anne Tait

Dundurn Press · Ebook · November 28, 2015

CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) — Commended From the award-winning movie comes a story of courage and forbidden love.

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Who it’s for
For readers interested in historical stories of Chinese railway workers in Canada
Themes
Courage amid prejudice, Migration and family, Forbidden love
Genres
Historical YA - Canada, Historical YA - Asia, Historical YA Romance

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About this book

CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) — Commended From the award-winning movie comes a story of courage and forbidden love. It’s 1882 in southern China. Li Jun, a feisty homeless girl disguised as a boy called Little Tiger, works in a fireworks factory and yearns to sail across the ocean to the mysterious Gold Mountain in faraway British Columbia to find her long-lost father and fulfill her promise to her dying mother.

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She joins thousands of Chinese men blasting a path for the new railway through the “impassable” Rocky Mountains. There she faces danger, deceit, and prejudice at every turn. Then, defying all the rules, she falls in love with James, the son of the railway tycoon. Should she reveal her true identity to him? Coming from such different worlds, could they make a life together?

Who it’s for

  • For readers interested in historical stories of Chinese railway workers in Canada
  • For readers drawn to forbidden love and a heroine hiding her identity

Where it sits

Historical YA - Canada76%
Historical YA Romance54%
Historical YA - Asia45%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Historical YA Romance
  • Prejudice & Racism for Teens
Authors
Anne Tait
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Published
November 28, 2015
Format
Ebook
Theme
Courage amid prejudice · Migration and family · Forbidden love
Reading lane
Historical YA Romance