num_pages: 168
description: Winner of the 1993 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award and the CLA Book of the Year AwardJasmine 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