Li Jun and the Iron Road [Paperback]

CCBCs Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016)  Commended

From the award-winning movie comes a story of courage and forbidden love.

Its 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?Action and romancewhat more do you want??Iron RoadrivalsThe Pianistin significance...both stories give a face to those nameless and voiceless who perished.The novels strength lies in its depiction of the miserable working conditions endured by the Chinese workers who built Canada's railways in the 1880s. As well, through the eyes of a young woman, readers see the discrimination against Chinese people in Canada and the circumscribed roles for women at that time & [a] worthy addition to schools and public libraries.Anne Taitis 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 includingAnne of Green Gables,Road to Avonlea, andGoosebumps. 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 filmIron Road, and was nominated for an Emmy. She lives in Toronto.Li Junepitomizes the feminist dream of equality. An important novels!