Dear Canada

By Gillian Chan

Subjects: Chinois, Journaux intimes, Immigrants, Government policy, Emigration et immigration, Histoire, Interpersonal relations, Politique gouvernementale, Chinese, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Diaries, fiction, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Emigration and immigration, fiction, Histoire et critique, Canada, history, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Interpersonal relations, fiction

Description: Mei-ling lives with her father in Vancouver, but her mother and baby brother are still in China. Mei-ling works after school, and her father holds down several jobs, in a frantic effort to come up with the head tax that will allow her mother and brother to come to Canada. They must have that money before the Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. Mei-ling cannot stop thinking about what will happen if they are unable to come up with the money to reunite their family?