An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling
by Gillian Chan • Part of the Dear Canada Series
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 43,517
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 76294, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Immigrants
- Chinese
- Diaries
- 1914-1945
- Canada--History--1914-1945--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | General
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Canada
- Vancouver (B.C.)
- Chinese--Canada--Fiction
- Chinese--Canada--Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants--Fiction
- History
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Vancouver (B.C.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Diaries--Fiction
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