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” Gold Mountain” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. Life on “the Gold Mountain” is grueling and dangerous. To build the railroad that will connect the west coast to the east, Ling Fan and other Chinese laborers lay track and blast tunnels through the treacherous peaks of the Sierra Nevada, facing cave-ins, avalanches, and blizzards―along with hostility from white Americans.

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This gripping YA Historical Fiction debut from Betty G. Yee will keep you turning pages.
Tam Ling Fan takes on her dead brother’s identity as well as his contract for work on the Transcontinental Railroad in Sierra Nevada. Her mission is to raise the money to free her dissident father from prison back home in Guangzhou.Yee deals with complex issues like the meaning of breaking gender norms in an era where foot binding was still de rigueur for the upper classes. The nuances of racism play a role as well. In Sierra Nevada, Chinese immigrant workers are brutally harassed by the whites and put in grave danger, blasting through mountains which shade the home territories of native tribes who have been driven from their homes.