num_pages: 168
description: Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria while her father goes to China for a year. But on a field trip to Chinatown, she explores a curious shop in Fan Tan Alley and accidentally passes through a hidden door. She finds herself in Victoria's Chinatown of the late 1880's. Mistaken for a Chinese boy, she is soon caught up in a race through the Fraser Canyon to find a tiger amulet.
language: English
title: White Jade Tiger
titlecomplete: White Jade Tiger
genres: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical, Childrens, Canada, Fiction, Time Travel
ratings_count: 241
places: Victoria, British Columbia
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
publisher: Dundurn Press