Title: The tenth pupil
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.
Subjects: Lumber camps, Logging, History, Japanese, Prejudices, Fiction, Children's fiction, British columbia, fiction, Lumber and lumbering, fiction
Places: Canada, Vancouver Island (B.C.)
Time periods: 1914-1945, 20th century