Lumber Camp Library

Lumber Camp Library
Author: Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003-11-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064442926

To Ruby, her log-riding lumberjack pa is the most wonderful person in the world. There's nothing she'd rather do than follow in his footprints, but a lumber camp is no place for an eight-year-old girl. So Ruby goes to school. There she discovers another passion -- the world that opens up to her in books. When circumstances suddenly change, Ruby fears she has lost the two things she loves most. But through her struggle, she discovers in herself the courage, kindness, and talent that she always admired in her father.

Lumber Camp Library

Lumber Camp Library
Author: Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2003-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780606295901

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking

Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking
Author: Maureen M. Fischer
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: Cookery, American
ISBN: 0736806040

Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, and common foods eaten by lumberjacks and loggers working in the American West during the nineteenth century. Includes recipes.

Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp

Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
Author: Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Publisher: River Road Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780938682363

Twelve-year-old Gus McCarty struggles at school with an obnoxious classmate named Al until an accident sends him back in time to a lumber camp with an equally troublesome lumberjack named Alex.

Marven of the Great North Woods

Marven of the Great North Woods
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152168261

When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

The Legend of Auntie Po

The Legend of Auntie Po
Author: Shing Yin Khor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525554890

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885. Cover may vary. Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in the United States.

Blackwater Ben

Blackwater Ben
Author: William Durbin
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307514595

Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that’s what Ben wants to be doing. But the long cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an orphan boy called Nevers arrives in camp. When Nevers signs on to work with Pa, Ben makes a friend and a rival, too.

Gifts from the Sea

Gifts from the Sea
Author: Natalie Kinsey
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009-03-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307527956

Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can’t leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their lives forever: Two small mattresses strapped together, and inside, a baby! They name her Cecelia, which means “a gift from the sea,” and call her Celia. She makes them a family again–and helps heal the hurt left by Quila’s mother’s passing. Two years later, though, another stranger arrives, one who changes everything all over again: A woman named Margaret, come looking for the final resting place of her sister, whose ship had gone down in a storm two years before. Her sister’s baby had never been found, either, she explains, and now she has no family of her own. Could this be Celia’s aunt? Will Quila have to give up Celia so Margaret can have her own family back? This is a gripping tale full of love, loss, and healing.

The Cookcamp

The Cookcamp
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545748259

Told through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy, this is a story of adventure and discovery in a cookcamp located in the Canadian woods during World War II.When?: World War IIWhere?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woodsWhy?: He's not really sure. One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a cookcamp. The camp is home to 9 men who are building a road through the woods. The boy misses his mother, but at the same time the camp becomes home--a special home where he learns to spit and rides the tractor. It's a wonderful summer, but then he lets slip to his grandmother about "Uncle Casey" and she writes seven letters to his mother. Seven letters that she mails "good and hard." A short while later, the boy returns home.