DEAR CANADA: Gold Mountain

Mei-ling's story is quite good. She's in Canada with her father, while her mother and younger brother wait in China. She works hard, both in school and out. She tries to help earn money to bring her family together again in Canada.

Mei-ling's world is small. Most of the scenes take place in just a handful of locations with maybe a dozen characters. But that doesn't mean the book isn't well-written. It very much is! It just doesn't have huge historical elements to it. It's a slice of life for a Chinese immigrant girl in Canada in the early 1900s.

While I didn't learn much from the book, it was still a great read, unlike some of the others that focus less on history.