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| #17806571 in Books | 2002-08-02 | Format: Large Print | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .78 x5.48 x8.88l, | File type: PDF | 223 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Lots of layers|By Jessica Oliveros|Written from the perspective of a thirteen year-old girl, Eliza, in late nineteenth century Crescent City, California. Eliza lives on an island with her parents and helps them run the lighthouse. (Interesting historical fact-this is the Battery Point lighthouse in Crescent City. The characters are fictional, but the lighthouse is not.) From Publishers Weekly|"Truth is a powerful thing. Sometimes it purely cries out to be told," muses 15-year-old Eliza Jane McCully, the narrator of Fletcher's (Shadow Spinner) eye-opening tale set in the late 1880s, when Chinese immigrant workers were expelled f
In late-nineteenth-century California, Chinese immigrants are being forced out or even killed by whites who say they fear for their jobs. But fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane has been shown kindness by a Chinese boy, and stands up to the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to return the favor.
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You easily download any file type for your device.Walk Across the Sea | Susan Fletcher.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
