Posted on May 29, 2009 by pernodel
Lawson, Julie. The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain. Toronto and New York: Stoddard Kids, 2000.
- - -. Destination Gold! Victoria: Orca, 2000.
In an article published a few years ago in CCL/LCJ, I wrote about two other novels by Julie Lawson, author of White Jade Tiger, discussed in the last entry. Now I’d like to go [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2009 by pernodel
Lawson, Julie. White Jade Tiger. 1993. Toronto: Sandcastle Dundurn, 2006.
The text is a traditional third person past narrative, usually focalized through the central character, Jasmine, but frequently interspersing sections involving not only Keung, a Chinese boy who comes to BC to find his father in the nineteenth century but also other Chinese characters connected to [...]
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