The Journey of Yung Lee: From China to America (Immigrant's Chronicles #4) (Paperback)

by Judith McCoy-Miller (Author)

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Based on true stories of immigrant families.

Can Lee turn the prejudice and cruelty of others into friendship?

"Howard O'Laughlin, come sit beside Yung Lee," Miss Thompson ordered. Lee's stomach flip-flopped. Of all the people in the class, why did it have to be Howard O'Laughlin?" These seating assignments are permanent until the end of the school year," Miss Thompson continued.

Four years before, twelve-year-old Yung Lee's family had been killed in a rebellion in her native province, except her brother Yung Fong. Times are hard in China, and Fong is convinced that the only way to better their lives is to search for gold in California.

Lee does not want to leave China. She is happy living with the Conroys, missionaries who have taught her about Jesus Christ. But Fong insists that their little family must stay together. If he goes, she must go too.

In California Fong learns that finding gold is not so easy. And while Fong must worry about money, Lee myust endure the cruel teasing of the class bully, Howard. Can Lee turn Howard's prejudice into friendship? And when the Yung's money and gold are stolen, how will they live?

In The Journey of Yung Lee, Lee finds that showing God's love and kindness to our enemies can turn them into friends.

Judith McCoy-Miller is a Public Service Administrator for the state of Kansas. Mrs. Miller's interest in Chinese immigration was piqued several years ago when she came across a photo of young Chinese girls who had been reared at a mission home in California. Yung Lee is a composit character based on her research into female Chinese immigrants.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Cook Communications Ministries (CO) (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781432855
• ISBN-13: 978-0781432856
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,507,466 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, November 28, 2003

By	Elisabeth "Gymfan15" (Moreno Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Yung Lee is a young orphan girl living in China, and despite her bound feet, which causes her much pain, she is happy. But when her brother Yung Fong wants them to immigrate to California to seek their fortunes, Lee is dismayed. She doesn't want to leave China and the kind missionaries whom with she stays. But brothers are brothers, and to America she goes.
Once in California Fong meets up with a family who agrees to take them in, and Lee makes friends with their feisty daughter Lizzy. Lee is excited to attend school, but her excitement stops when a boy named Howard O'Laughlin teases her and on one occasion steals her cup, which was a treasure to her and Fong because it had belonged to their parents.
Will Howard ever accept Lee? And will Lee and Fong ever find enough gold to stay in America? Find out in this wonderful book!

This is one of my favorite books out of the whole series. I once lent all the books to a friend of mine and she kept them for a looooong time. I'm just I own them and don't have to borrow them every time I want to read them!