![]() What if someone could interview the last known survivor of an old town’s most controversial and secret account ever? This is what a young freshman named David Peterson is able to do. Inspired by very real accounts of the Black Duck, a legendary rum-running boat that worked the New England shores during the era, Newberry Honor winner, Janet Taylor Lisle has written a colorful, original work of historical fiction. ![]() Then Ruben meets the daring captain of the Black Duck, the most elusive smuggling craft of them all, and it isn’t long before he’s keeping dangerous company. Soon the boys, along with Jeddy’s strong-willed sister, Marina, are drawn in, suspected by rival bootlegging gangs of taking something crucial off the dead man. Its spring, 1929, Prohibition is in full swing, and many in their community are involved. ![]() ![]() WHEN RUBEN AND JEDDY FIND A DEAD BODY in an evening suit washed up on the shore, they are certain it has to do with smuggling liquor. From back of book: History and mystery collide in a gripping saga of rum-running on the Rhode Island coast during the 1920’s. ![]()
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