Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle

An intriguing look at the Prohibition Era.

Recommended age: 14 – 16; 16 – 18; Adult.  

Ruben and his friend — two fourteen-year olds — find a dead body on the beach.  This is the heart of Prohibition rum-running.   The small-town smugglers are running alcohol, and then things get more and more dangerous as bigger and bigger gangs work on muscling their way into the lucrative smuggling.

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