![]() ![]() ![]() Only when this jade amulet is recovered and returned to China will a curse be lifted on Keung's family. She befriends 16-year-old Keung and travels to the Fraser Canyon where they search for his missing father as well as a jade amulet from ancient times. White Jade Tiger (Beach Holme, 1993), based on actual events in the Fraser Canyon during the building of the CPR, describes the experiences of Chinese workers as its 13-year-old heroine Jasmine time-travels to Victoria's Chinatown of the 1880s. The Halifax Explosion of 1917 is the backdrop for an orphaned girl's diary in No Safe Harbour. ![]() ![]() Her Goldstone Trilogy is based on the worst disaster in CPR history - the 1910 avalanche at B.C.'s Rogers Pass. Her interest in the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway is evident not only in White Jade Tiger, but also in her picture book, Emma and the Silk Train and her novel, A Ribbon of Shining Steel. The subjects of her books range from cougars, ghosts and Chinese dragons, to fishing adventures and tongue-twisting pirates. Her first novel, White Jade Tiger, won the Sheila Egoff Award in 1994, and over the years she has garnered awards and nominations, critical acclaim, and much recognition. Born and raised in Victoria, B.C., she spent 18 years as an elementary school teacher before becoming a full-time author in 1991. Born in 1947, Julie Lawson has emerged as one of Canada's best children's authors, having published more than twenty books for young people. ![]()
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