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Book Review of Blackwater Ben

Blackwater Ben
Blackwater Ben
Author: William Durbin
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Library Binding
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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.