Results for "Durbin, William"

Could you survive in a cave...for a whole year? That's the challenge facing fourteen-year-old Jacob. Set in Ukraine during the final months of World War II, THE HIDDEN ROOM is based on the true story of a Jewish family who escapes from the Nazis by taking refuge in a remote cave. Jacob adjusts to t... Read More about The Hidden Room

Fourteen-year-old Pierre takes the bold step of agreeing to become an hivernant, a voyageur who stays in the north woods all winter. The book is lively with the dangers and deeds of voyageur life and with the customs of the Ojibway, winter neighbors who become Pierre's friends. Near misses abound as... Read More about Wintering

When 13-year-old Ben Ward left school to work with his Pa in a logging camp, a winter of peeling potatoes and setting tables wasn’t the adventure he had in mind. Still, come spring, he signs up for the log drive with his friend Nevers, wishing the head cook on the wanigan (the floating cook shack) c... Read More about Dead Man's Rapids

According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward’s father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime. In the winter of 1898, Ben leaves school for a job as a cook’s assistant to his father at the Blackwater Logging Camp. As Ben spends long hours peeling potatoes and frying flapjacks, he... Read More about Blackwater Ben (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

When 13-year-old Ben Ward left school to work with his Pa in a logging camp, a winter of peeling potatoes and setting tables wasn’t the adventure he had in mind. Still, come spring, he signs up for the log drive with his friend Nevers, wishing the head cook on the wanigan (the floating cook shack) c... Read More about Dead Man's Rapids