Blackwater Ben
William Durbin
Library Binding
(Wendy Lamb Books, Nov. 11, 2003)
While working with Pa as his assistant in the kitchen at Blackwater Logging Camp, thirteen-year-old Ben becomes bored with his day-to-day routine and wishes he could be out in the forest with the loggers, yet when an orphan, Nevers, arrives and gets a job working in the kitchen, Ben's feelings of friendship soon get mixed with feelings of jealousy.
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