Yep, Laurence.

Dragon's gate / Laurence Yep. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1993. - 273 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."

ISBN: 0060229713 0060229721 (lib. bdg.) 059020355x (Scholastic pbk.)

LCCN: 92043649 /AC/r94

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chinese--Juvenile fiction.--United States
Railroads--History--Juvenile fiction.--Sierra Nevada Mountains
Chinese--Fiction.--United States
Railroads--History--Fiction.--Sierra Nevada Mountains

LC Class. No.: PZ7.Y44 / Dqr 1993

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]