Beautiful country : (Record no. 138511)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | phtghnu |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250410165948.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 230126t20222021nyua 000 0aeng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2022435298 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780593313008 |
| Qualifying information | (trade paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0593313003 |
| Qualifying information | (trade paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | HNU |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | n-us-ny |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F128.9.C5 |
| Item number | W35 2022 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Placement Code | GC |
| Classification number | 974.7 W18 |
| Item number | 2021 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wang, Qian Julie, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1987- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Beautiful country : |
| Remainder of title | a memoir of an undocumented childhood / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Qian Julie Wang. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First Anchor Books edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 305 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Media type code | n |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Carrier type code | nc |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country," but when seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. Unable to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and disregarded, put into special education classes because she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman, you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do as you're told or we could be separated forever. Understanding impliclity the toll this has taken on her parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, while also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape she found in books at the local library. Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an astonishing new talent"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Grade School |
| Source | All programs |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wang, Qian Julie, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1987- |
| General subdivision | Childhood and youth. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wang, Qian Julie, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1987- |
| General subdivision | Family. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Chinese Americans |
| Geographic subdivision | New York (State) |
| -- | New York |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Immigrants |
| Geographic subdivision | New York (State) |
| -- | New York |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Noncitizens |
| Geographic subdivision | New York (State) |
| -- | New York |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Shijiazhuang Shi (China) |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) | |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Edition | 23 |
| Classification part | 900-999 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | GC | Grade School Library | Grade School Library | General Circulation Section | 07/24/2024 | Library Fund | GC 974.7 W18 2021 | GS001240 | 04/10/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Books |
