It's 1896 and Emily lives a middle-class life in Victoria, B.C., with her parents and two little sisters. She becomes friends with Hing, the family's Chinese servant and, through that relationship, discovers the secret world of Victoria's Chinatown. She also begins to understand the disparity between those like herself who have much, and those, like Hing and the family he left behind in China, who have little.

Across the James Bay Bridge (Our Canadian Girl: Emily, Book 1)

Lawson, Julie

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Canada

Our Canadian Girl Emily #3 Building Bridges

Emily greets the summer holiday with mixed feelings: while there’s no more school, there’s also no Alice to play with ever since Alice’s parents forbade their friendship. But summer holds out new promise with Emily’s discovery of a dog on the beach. Near death when she spots him and with no one to claim him, it doesn’t take long before Emily’s tender-loving care restores him to his happy and healthy self. In fact, Sam is such a great dog that soon Emily worries that he may be dognapped! Victoria has just been hit with gold fever and men are thronging into the city from Seattle to grab gear—and good dogs if they can find them—before heading up north to the Klondike to get rich. The gold rush, it seems, can change everyone’s fortunes—even those of a dog!

Our Canadian Girl Emily #4 Summer of Gold

Meet Emily Murdoch, who lives with her parents and her two sisters in Victoria, B.C., in 1896. On the other side of Victoria's James Bay Bridge is Chinatown, a world as different from Emily's as can be. Thousands of Chinese immigrants looking for a better life in Canada call it home, including Hing, Emily's family's cook. For Emily, the lure of Chinatown proves to be irresistible. One afternoon, on an adventure with her friends, she gets lost in its teeming streets. Now she is about to learn much more about Hing's life-and something more about her own.

Our Canadian Girl Emily

Puffin Canada

Emily Murdoch is looking forward to one of her favourite times of the year: the four-day celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday. Her excitement at the approaching festivities is tempered by her disappointment that her coveted bicycle may now be an impossibility and that Hing has decided to leave the Murdoch household. She has also had a falling-out with her best friend, Alice. 
On May 26, Emily, her family and friends climb on board streetcars for the ride to Esquimalt to witness the climax of the holiday celebrations. As Car 16 rolls onto the Point Ellice Bridge, the centre span of the bridge collapses, and the streetcar—packed with more than 120 passengers—plunges into the Gorge.

Our Canadian Girl Emily #2 Disaster At the Bridge

In her lyrical, cumulative rhyme based on the poetic structure of This is the House That Jack Built, award-winning author Julie Lawson tells the story of a young girl who spends a magical day on the beach, building a sandcastle. While she works, the little girl_s imagination creates a fairy tale adventure, complete with stately castle walls and whales and mermaids who come to visit. Accompanied by artist Frances Tyrrell_s exquisite illustrations, this is a beautiful time capsule of childhood.

Kates Castle

Oxford Univ. Press

During a terrible drought, a cheerful, dutiful son finds a magic pearl which forever changes his life and the lives of his mother and neighbors.

The dragon's pearl

Oxford University Press

Describes a sand castle built by a little girl, and its relationship to the sea

Kate's Castle

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Stoddart Kids

Determined to hide the truth about her sexual abuse from her cousins, with whom she is spending the summer, Chelsea consoles herself by burning things whenever she feels threatened and finds an ultimate challenge when she plays a fear-confronting game.

Danger Game

Teen & Young Adult

Little,Brown & Co

After finding a shimmering magical pearl, Xiao Sheng, a poor boy, and his mother are blessed with good fortune that they generously share with others, in a lyrical tale based on ancient Chinese dragon lore.

The Dragon's Pearl

Clarion Books

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