Title:
The young man and the sea / Rodman Philbrick.
ISBN:
9780439368308
9780439856300
9780439802871
9780439368292
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic Inc., 2005.
©2004
Physical Description:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Contents:
Lobster boy -- Swampers -- By the barrel raised -- Rotten to the keel -- Attack of the vampire mud worms -- Finest kind -- Ringing of the hammer -- What the grease monkey said -- Money by the pound -- Lobster in the parlor -- Trap wars -- Rich boy in the dark of night -- When you wake up -- By hook and by crook -- Where the big fish live -- Blushing bandit -- Three rules for Skiff Beaman -- What happened to the stars -- If mist made the world -- Take my breath away -- When the whoosh comes by -- Keg rider -- Nantucket sleigh ride -- Angel in the mist -- Tail on the door.
Summary:
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 4.5.
Reading Counts! 4.8.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 5 77134.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.8 13 Quiz: 36200 Guided reading level: S.
Geographic Term:
Genre:
Interest age level:
009-012.
Audience:
800L Lexile
Reading level:
4.
OCLC Number:
ocm59000520
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
