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Landed

Landed

Lee, Milly
Choi, Yangsook

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0374343144
ISBN13: 9780374343149
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: Feb 21 2006
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.41 Width: 9.11 Depth: 10.95
Language: English

Choi's lovely, somber, full-page watercolors and Lee's quiet narrative. . .put a human face on the great abstraction of immigration. --Washington Post Book World

Sun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, new immigrants like Sun are detained at Angel Island until they are called to take a difficult oral exam before they can land - leave Angel Island and go ashore. On the boat, Sun had studied maps of his village and memorized facts about his ancestors. But as the weeks pass in detainment, the map's compass points swirl in his memory, and

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