The tenth pupil
By: Constance Horne.
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Vancouver, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Logging -- Fiction.; Lumber camps -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; Japanese -- Canada -- Fiction.; Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1924-1945 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1934, eleven-year-old Trudy becomes aware of the prejudices against the Japanese when Shigi, a Japanese boy, becomes the important "tenth pupil" necessary to keep open their school in a small logging camp on Vancouver Island, Canada.