Moonshiner's Son

Moonshiner's Son
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781439137048
ISBN-13 : 1439137048
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Book Synopsis Moonshiner's Son by : Carolyn Reeder

Download or read book Moonshiner's Son written by Carolyn Reeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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....


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