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Howard, Ellen.

The gate in the wall / Ellen Howard. - 1st ed. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. - 148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"A Jean Karl book."

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.

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Canals--Fiction.
Child labor--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.


England--Fiction.

PZ7.H83274 / Gat 1999

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