The gate in the wall
Record details
- ISBN: 0689822952
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Physical Description:
148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Jean Karl book." |
Summary, etc.: | In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns. |
Target Audience Note: | 4-6 Baker & Taylor |
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Subject: | Canals Fiction Child labor Fiction Orphans Fiction England Fiction |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Franklin Elementary School | FIC HOW (Text) | 30206000054327 | Junior Readers | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | J HOWARD, ELLEN (Text) | 34037079954659 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Killingly Library | j How (Text) | 34040082696176 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
The Gate in the Wall
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Summary
The Gate in the Wall
Pressed into service as a canal woman, ten-year-old Emma finds ways to utilize her artistic gifts. Although it is a better existence than her strenuous job in the English silk mill, she feels guilty over the sister she left behind. Authentic details make this an engaging story--one that reveals the hardships of the mid-1800s when life for the poor in England was unrelentingly cruel. It is also a liberating tale as Emma draws on her inner strength to find her true calling.