White Jade Tiger

Name: White Jade Tiger
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Julie Lawson
ISBN: 9781987848564

Author: Julie Lawson

Narrator: Julie Lawson

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Crow Cottage Publishing

Published: 06/08/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria, BC while her father goes to China for a year. But on a field trip to Victoria's Chinatown, she mysteriously finds herself in the Chinatown of the early 1880s — a time when thousands of Chinese were contracted to work on the portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway then being constructed in BC's Fraser Canyon. In the maze of Chinatown's alleys and passages, she meets Keung, a teenage boy who has come to "Gold Mountain" in search of his father, a railway worker. Keung also has to find a jade amulet believed to have magical powers. Jasmine accompanies him to the Fraser Canyon only to discover that she and Keung are not alone in their search for the white jade tiger. Read by Julie Lawson. Ages 9-12

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicholas on August 11, 2013

White Jade Tiger is an interesting book. It's about a girl named Jasmine who is having a "perfect day"; everything is going the way she wants it to be, even though she's having inexplicable nightmares. However, while at her weekly tai-chi lessons, her dad tells her that her mom crashed her car into......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on August 17, 2015

I enjoyed reading this book a lot because not only is it a fiction but its a historical fiction which demonstrates true facts and things that happened from the past.This book is about a girl named Jasmine traveling back in time to when the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railroad) was being built. And during......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on August 26, 2024

* I put work into reviews like these. Please comment: don't dump an empty 'like button' click on me. * I read fellow Canadian, Julie Lawson for the first time in 2020, a surprisingly stark but important element of the Titanic sinking that I had not seen told. Using bleak, real history that again occu......more

Goodreads review by Christina on February 25, 2010

One of my favourite childhood novels. It has the ideal combination of historical BC coast Chinatown, mystery and dragon/tiger ornaments.......more

Goodreads review by Irvin on December 22, 2024

Good YA easy read that sheds light on the experiences of the Chinese in early Victoria Chinatown. Being from Victoria, the accuracy of the locations and details made the story more immersive. Back to the Future-like twist ending wasn’t that much of a twist but for a book from 1993, perhaps it was mo......more