Black Duck

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Black Duck

By: Janet Taylor Lisle

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

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Summary

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. It is spring 1929, Prohibition is in full swing, and many in their community are involved.

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. 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.

Inspired by very real accounts of the Black Duck, a legendary rum-running boat that worked the New England shores during the era, Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle has produced a colorful, original work of historical fiction.

Janet Taylor LisleDavid AckroydListening Library

Action & Adventure

Crime

Historical Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Mysteries

Mysteries & Detectives

Mystery & Suspense

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Action & Adventure Crime Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Mysteries Mysteries & Detectives Mystery & Suspense Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Critic reviews

Lots of adventure and mystery. (VOYA)

Riveting mystery and nonstop adventure. (School Library Journal)

The setting's cinematic detail brings the exhilarating action close, and readers will easily see themselves in young Ruben. (Booklist)

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