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