Mei Ling in China City
Publication Information
Author:  Smith, Icy	Illustrator:  Roski, Gayle Garner
Title:  Mei Ling in China City	Date:  2008
Publisher:  East West Discovery Press	City:  Manhattan Beach, CA
ISBN, paperback:  9780970165480	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:   Yes
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    historical fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
Twelve year old Mei Ling Lee helps her parents during the Moon Festival celebration and raises money for Chinese women and children refugees in 1942. She also has a friend whose family was relocated to Manzanar War Relocation Center because she is Japanese-American. Beautiful illustrations with actual photos in the back of the book. Author's notes also available for clarification/additional information of the time and conditions of the Chinese and Japanese in America in the early 1940s
Teaching Ideas:
This book makes a good addition to the text set on Japanese internment camps. Use the keyword Japanese internment camps for the list of related books.
Teaching Strategies:
K-W-L Instruction Strategy    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf
Think-Pair-Share    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/think_pair_share.pdf
Unsent Letters    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Celebration > holidays Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > giving/generosity Social Studies > sociology > social issues > racism History > topic > war > World War II > concentration/internment camps > Japanese internment camps Social Studies > anthropology > cultures > cultural customs

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