| Ghost Train Contributor(s): Yee, Paul (Author), Chan, Harvey (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0888992572 ISBN-13: 9780888992574 Publisher: Groundwood Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: Despite her own handicap, Choon-yi hopes to join her father in North America, but finds he has been killed by working on the railway. She makes her peace by boarding a train herself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 770 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 9.34" W x 12.39" (1.09 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 18675 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |