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Blackwater Ben
Blackwater Ben
Author: William Durbin
Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that’s what Ben wants to be doing. — But the long ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385729284
ISBN-10: 0385729286
Publication Date: 11/11/2003
Pages: 208
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Very well-written children's novel about work in a logging camp in 1898. No Paul Bunyan tall tale here, only a realistic story, by an author who has written other historical tales about young people at work in North America. Since reading this book, I have already read another of his ("The Broken Blade") and liked it very much.

The book also has a glossary of logging camp slang.

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