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ISBN: 0385729286

ISBN13: 9780385729284

Blackwater Ben

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Item: Blackwater Ben
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By William Durbin

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Book Overview

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 cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an orphan boy called Nevers arrives in camp. When Nevers signs on to work with Pa, Ben makes a friend and a rival, too. From the Hardcover edition.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0385729286

ISBN13:9780385729284

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Wendy Lamb Books

Length:199 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Age Range:10 years and up

Grade Range:Grade 5 and higher

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Rated 4 stars
Eddies review

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 25, 2007

Backwater Ben By William Durbin 230 pages Book review by Eddie macari Have you ever wondered how much cooks have to feed lumberjacks in the 1900's? Well a lot. Ben a 16-year-old boys father is a cook for a lumberjack camp and Ben has to work twice as much for hid dad because they just fired their skipper. Until Nevers comes into the story and he is fast as cheetah at peeling potatoes and cleaning up. So now Ben...

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Rated 5 stars
Great book!!!!!!

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 10, 2004

This book is a wonderful historical fiction about a boy going to work with his father and getting out of school, every kids dream of course. I read it over the summer and finished it in three days it was so good!

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Rated 5 stars
An interesting and highly enjoyable book .

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 17, 2004

For Ben, being able to get out of going to school is like a dream come true. School was such a waste of time after all, and now, at last, he can be with his father and work in a logging camp. It was hard to leave Mrs. Wilson. She had taken care of him since his mother died and they were close friends. Still, he was now almost grown up and ready for a change.What Ben wasn't ready for was the work itself. It was grueling. He...

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