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.