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Loh, Virginia Shin-Mui , James, Helen Foster

Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America

40 pp. | Sleeping Bear | May, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-833-4 $16.99
(4) K-3 Tales of Young Americans series. Illustrated by Wilson Ong. Twelve-year-old Chinese orphan Lee travels to America alone in 1926. Kept on Angel Island Immigration Station, he must "prove," with his detailed answers (learned from a coaching book) to a grueling interrogator, that he is the "son" of a legal American resident. This pat story of an immigrant looking for a better life in America is illustrated with realistic if somewhat murky paintings.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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