Yep, Laurence. <br/><br/>
The journal of Wong Ming-Chung :  a Chinese miner / 
by Laurence Yep. 
 - New York, NY :  Scholastic Inc,  2000. 
 - 219p 
 - My name is America .
<br/><br/> Summary: A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experience in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-590-38607-7 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>California--Gold discoveries--Fiction<br/>Gold mines and mining--Fiction<br/>Chinese Americans--Fiction<br/>Diaries--Fiction