The gate in the wall
By: Ellen Howard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Canals -- Fiction; Child labor -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Jean Karl book."