Download or read book The Gate in the Wall written by Ellen Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.