The shad are running

By Judith St George

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Dutch Americans, Dutch, united states, fiction, Fishers, Fathers, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fishers, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Fishing, fiction, United states, fiction

Description: Eleven-year-old Cornelius Van Loon is destined to be a fisherman but is terrified of the water. The collision of two steamboats on the Hudson River tests his courage.