Thousand Pieces of Gold

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Thousand pieces of gold

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Publisher description: Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the fascinating story of Lalu Nathoy, later known as Polly Bemis. Born in China in the mid 1800's, Lalu was raised in a peasant village ravaged...

Pie-biter

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

In the nineteenth century, a young Chinese comes to the United States to work on the railroad and develops a fondness for pies that becomes legendary.

Pie-biter

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

In the nineteenth century, a young Chinese comes to the United States to work on the railroad and develops a fondness for pies that becomes legendary.

Sole survivor

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Poon Lim was a second steward on the Benlomond, and after it was torpedoed, he survived for 133 days on a wooden raft, finally being rescued at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Sole survivor

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Poon Lim was a second steward on the Benlomond, and after it was torpedoed, he survived for 133 days on a wooden raft, finally being rescued at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Sole Survivor

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese Yankee

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

"Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. O...

God of Luck

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Pie-Biter Comepastels

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

In the nineteenth century, a young Chinese comes to the United States to work on the railroad and develops a fondness for pies that becomes legendary.