The tenth pupil
By: Constance Horne
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Vancouver, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Lumber camps; Logging; History; Japanese; Prejudices; 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.