by Cornelia Meigs
Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.
Recommended for young readers ages 10 years and up. Perhaps ideal for 12 - 14 years of age.
A Newbury Honor book.
Softcover, 288 pages.
Bloomsbury Publishing.