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Title Son of fortune / Victoria McKernan.
Author McKernan, Victoria.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2013]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Club Central  YA FIC MAC    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 391 pages ; 22 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Summary In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
Commerce -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Chinese -- Peru -- Juvenile fiction.
Peru -- History -- 1829-1919 -- Juvenile fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Commerce -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Chinese -- Peru -- Fiction.
Peru -- History -- 1829-1919 -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780375864568 (hardcover): $16.99
0375864563 (hardcover)
9780375964565 (library binding)
0375964568 (library binding)
9780375857867 (pbk.)
0375857869 (pbk.)