The Legend of Auntie Po

by Shing Yin Khor

Book Overview

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.

Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525554890
• ISBN13: 9780525554899
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Kokila
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9