Title: The gate in the wall
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.
Subjects: Canals, Child labor, England, Fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, England, fiction, Canals, fiction
Places: England