W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Emily : Across the James Bay Bridge /

Lawson, Julie, 1947- , author.

Emily : Across the James Bay Bridge / Julie Lawson. - Toronto : Penguin, 2001. - xi, 73 pages : maps, illustrations ; 21 cm. - Our Canadian Girl ; Emily ; 1 .

In Victoria, British Columbia, in 1896, ten-year-old Emily travels to the city's Chinatown to help her family's servant, Hing, after he has been wrongly accused of breaking an expensive vase, and, once there, learns about the lives and culture of Chinese immigrants.

"Ages 8-12"--Cover p. [4].

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Immigrants--Fiction.
Chinese Canadians--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.


Victoria (B.C.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Canada--History--1867-1914--Fiction.


Canadian fiction.
Authors, Canadian.
FICTION / Historical / Canadian.

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