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...