Moonshiner's Son
by Reeder, Carolyn
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689855508
- ISBN 13
- 9780689855504
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4398851-6
- Title
- Moonshiner's Son
- Author
- Reeder, Carolyn
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0689855508
- ISBN 13
- 9780689855504
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- This edition first published
- 2003-02-01
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