chinese americans

An exploration of United States immigrants from China that discusses their country of origin and culture and includes personal stories about the experiences of immigrants and their children.

Examines the large migration of Chinese people who came to America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their hardships and struggles to make a new life; and contains a timeline, charts and graphs, and profiles on important people and events.

When Katie misplaces her lucky charm, her mother gives her a journal to write her feelings in.

When Katie and her family go on a trip, she decides to write a story for her friends to show how much she misses them.

Katie's school assignment is to write an "opinion piece," but she needs some guidance on just what that is, and what is should not be.

Katie's school assignment is to pick a topic and write a research paper on it, and when she picks butterflies as her subject she learns that even small animals can be very interesting.

When Katie and her friends write thank-you letters to a class visitor, Katie learns that writing letters can be fun.

Katie and her friends explore writing different kinds of poetry about themselves and their surroundings.

Examines the land, culture, economy, and history of China, and features links to Internet sites that contain additional information about the country.

In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.