When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
- ISBN10 0060229721
- ISBN13 9780060229726
- Publish Date 12 February 2000 (first published 19 November 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 273
- Language English