Landed Condition:Very Good Ling’s humorous take on surviving

Ling’s humorous take on surviving Singapore schools will have you laughing and give you serious food for thought

all assembled for the first time in one book – each with a revelatory introduction

as well as how to recover from a mistake quickly and prevent it from happening again

A Child's Book of Angels (Well Read)

Landed Condition:Very Good Ling’s humorous take on survivingSun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, new immigrants like Sun are detained at Angel Island until they are called to take a difficult oral exam before they can "land" leave Angel Island and go ashore. On the boat, Sun had studied maps of his village and memorized facts about his ancestors.