Moonshiner's Son - Softcover

Reeder, Carolyn

 
9780689855504: Moonshiner's Son
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0689855508 ISBN 13: 9780689855504
Verlag: Aladdin, 2003

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Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more than to please this rough, distant man.
Then a preacher comes to the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to rid Bad Camp Hollow of the "evils of liquor." This is when Tom and his father begin their campaign to match wits with the preacher and try to outsmart the law officers he calls in. Tom's father is eloquent in defense of a way of life long and respectfully lived by the Higgins family. But the preacher and his pretty daughter make a powerful case against it. And when drink causes a tragedy in the community, Tom Higgins is torn....

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carolyn Reeder was a writer best known for children's historical novels. She also wrote three non-fiction books about Shenandoah National Park for adults together with her husband.

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Verlag
Aladdin
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0689855508
ISBN 13 
9780689855504
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
info@simonandschuster.nl

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Utrecht
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Niederlande

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