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Manuel and the lobsterman
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Cat Urbain |
Manuel, a Puerto Rican thirteen-year-old from New Haven, Connecticut, goes to Maine with his mother and new stepfather for the summer, where he learns to work on a lobster boat and to get along with … |
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Vanishing species
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Susan R Playfair |
"Vanishing Species chronicles the fate of groundfishing in New England waters since the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) was enacted in 1996, causing increasingly strict regulations to be placed on th… |
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The summer I dared
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Barbara Delinsky |
On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, l… |
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The summer I dared
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Barbara Delinsky |
The only survivors of a devastating boating accident off the coast of Maine, Julia, Noah, and Kim struggle with their brush with death, their feelings of guilt, and their changed perspectives on thei… |
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Going lobstering
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Jerry Pallotta |
Linda and Erik are invited to join Big Joe, the lobsterman, for a day of lobstering. |
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The summer wives
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Beatriz Williams |
Twenty years after being banished from Winthrop Island, Miranda Schuyler returns to find justice for the man she once loved.
Summer, 1951. Miranda Schuyler's mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer… |
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Lobstering with my papa
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Billie Hancock |
During his summer break on Martha's Vineyard, a boy takes on his grandfather's values while learning the business of lobstering: siting buoys; hauling pots; measuring, banding, and storing lobsters. |
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The Crew
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Earl LeClaire |
"We were quite a crew. I thought I was tough and getting tougher all the time but the guys I hung around with, Bad Bob Royster, Pike, Hank-The-Man, Manny and Bundog made me look like an altar boy. Pr… |
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The Wooden Nickel
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William Carpenter |
"Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third-generation lobsterman who works the same waters as his father and grandfather, and pilots one of the few remaining wooden boats in the fleet. He knows ev… |
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Sea gift
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John Ashby |
While working on the lobster boats in his Nova Scotia town, thirteen-year-old Lauchie hauls up an old crock which hides a letter that sends him on a quest for treasure that was hidden long ago. |
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Jason, the lobsterman
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Nancy Woollcott Smith |
A young boy who is still a little unsure of himself describes his pleasant and unpleasant experiences aboard his father's lobster boat. |
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The lobster war
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Ethan Howland |
Although he fears being in the water, sixteen-year-old Dain is determined to be a professional lobsterman, despite pressure from his older brother and widowed mother that he attend college instead, a… |
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