Shortly before San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, a twelve-year-old orphan named Sung Li finds a box containing a locket with a photograph and an address, which lead her to a better life away from her demanding aunt and cousin.
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community.
Monifa, an African-American girl, befriends Mei Jing, a Chinese girl, after they are sat next to one another at school, and Monifa describes how Mei Jing has taught her about the Chinese culture and traditions.
A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.
In 1970s San Francisco, Julie and her best friend Ivy learn about Chinese immigration in the early twentieth century when they investigate a mysterious doll theft.