The Gate in the Wall

Late by only a minute, ten-year-old Emma has been locked out of the mill where she works ten hours a day at the silk-spinning machines. Her pay will be docked; she is sure to be beaten by her brother-in-law, Ben, when she gets home; and none of it is her fault. She sinks to the ground and cries. Then, through her tears, she sees a gate in a wall, a gate she has never seen before. Hesitantly she pushes through, putting off her return home. And through that gate she finds not only a waterway, which she later learns is a canal, and a strangely beautiful boat, but the entrance to a whole new future.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 11/14/2007
ISBN: 9781416967965
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 29340 / Gate in the Wall
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5