1
/
of
1
Dundurn Press
Li Jun and the Iron Road
Li Jun and the Iron Road
Regular price
$12.43 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$12.43 USD
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
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.
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?
Author: Anne Tait
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 12/22/2015
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781459731424
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2015
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 122
Quill & Quire 12/01/2015 pg. 41
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.
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?
Author: Anne Tait
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 12/22/2015
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781459731424
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2015
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 122
Quill & Quire 12/01/2015 pg. 41
About the Author
Anne Tait is a movie producer, a writer for stage, screen, and print, a broadcaster, and a casting director. She has cast feature films and major television shows including Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, and Goosebumps. She won the Female Eye Film Festival Career Achievement Award, two Anik awards, the Victoria College Distinguished Alumna honour, plus the Canadian Gemini and the Rome and Dominican Republic Festival awards for her film Iron Road, and was nominated for an Emmy. She lives in Toronto.
Share
