Moonshiner's Son (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780689855504)

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....

Author: Carolyn Reeder
ISBN-10: 0689855508
ISBN-13: 9780689855504
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2003
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10787 / Moonshiner's Son