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Bridge Across the Sky
Freeman Ng
Ages: 14+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-6659-4859-3
Keywords: Historical Fiction-Determination, family traditions, civil disobedience, Chinese Exclusion Act, San Francisco fire, Asian American history
While awaiting the fate-determining entrance interview, in 1924 a Chinese boy hoping to enter the U.S. endures detention at the infamous Angel Island Immigration Station. Free verse. Historical notes.