By the Skin of His Teeth: A Barkerville Mystery

by Ann Walsh

Overview

In By the Skin of His Teeth, 17-year-old Ted MacIntosh, whom author Ann Walsh showcased earlier in Moses, Me and Murder and The Doctor's Apprentice, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554885039
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Series:	A Barkerville Mystery , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Ann Walsh's books received the Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Award. She lives in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Ann Walsh is the author of thirteen books for young people. She is a winner of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Award, the Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award, and was a Canadian Library Association Notable selection. She was also shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award and the B.C. Book Prize. She lives in Victoria, B.C.