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 0064404897
- ISBN13 9780064404891
- Publish Date 23 January 2001 (first published 19 November 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Children's Books
- Edition Harper Trophy ed
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English