Oranges on Golden Mountain
Illustrator
Aki Sogabe
Publisher
Puffin
Publication Year
2001
ISBN
9780525464532
Pages
40 pages
Genre
historical
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Being sent from China to work with his uncle on Golden Mountain, Jo Lee's mother gives him words of encouragement to see him through the difficult transition to his new life in a new world in late-nineteenth-century California.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
AD690L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Family member death; Kinship care; Poverty; Immigrants and refugees; death of a parent; death of a father; relative raising relative; uncle raising nephew; financial hardship; immigrant children; family separation; relocation; resettlement
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Chinese)
Family Formation
mother; uncle
Awards
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, Supplement, 2002
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Eureka! California in Children's Literature, 2003 Fiction
Kaleidoscope, A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8, Fourth Edition, 2003 Families, Friends, and Community
Publishers Weekly Book Review Stars, Picture Book
Publishers Weekly Book Review Stars, 2000 Picture Book
Sharing Cultures: Asian American Children's Authors, 2001
Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, 2002
Keywords
orange; tree; fishing; shrimp; boat; mountain; letters; Hun; homesick; coin; mahjongg; firecracker; saplings
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Partridge, Elizabeth, "Oranges on Golden Mountain" (2001). Diverse Families. 1739.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1739