TY - BOOK AU - Walsh,Ann TI - By the Skin of His Teeth: a Barkerville mystery SN - 0888784481 U1 - F WAL PY - 2004/// CY - Vancouver PB - Sandcastle Books KW - Chinese KW - British Columbia KW - History KW - Fiction KW - Prejudices KW - Murder KW - Barkerville (B.C.) KW - 1849-1871 KW - Canadian fiction KW - Author, Canadian KW - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Middle grade N2 - 17-year-old Ted MacIntosh befriends a young Chinese boy despite the intense prejudice seething in the frontier town. Ted suffers intimidation and violence at the hands of the cruel, arrogant Tremblay and his cronies, but with courage and conviction the young man stands up for what he believes and defends his Chinese friend ER -