Will come to no good, they will eagerly turn the pages to find out how. Even though readers know from the get-go that the Black Duck Faux reproductions of period articles anchor the narrative and move the story along. This is a gripping tale of families and friendships stretched to the breaking point as the community around Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is caught in the escalating conflict between rival gangs. Riley, whom Ruben suspects may be involved in the bootlegging, and an old fisherman living in a seaside shack is roughed up as some men come looking for a mysterious 'ticket.' Much is at stake, as many locals supplement their livelihood by unloading the rumrunners, and townsfolk suspect there is a traitor in their midst. The situation grows complicated: Jeddy's father is chief of police, Ruben's father works for general store owner Mr. For adults, Lisle has written a two volume history of the town of Little Compton: FIRST LIGHT, SAKONNET 1660-1820, (2010) and A HOME BY THE SEA 1820-1950 (2012) She lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island, in a home by the sea. They go back to report it, but when the police arrive, the body has vanished. Her book BLACK DUCK won the 2007 Rhode Island Book Award from ASTAL, and was an ALA Notable Children's Book. In the spring of 1929, while Ruben and his friend Jeddy look for lobster pots, they come across a man's body washed up on the beach, elegantly dressed, with a bullet hole through his neck. Then Ruben meets the daring captain of the Black Duck, the most elusive smuggling craft of them all, and it isnt long before hes caught in a war between.

Readers will likely look past the awkward frame story-a contemporary student interviews Ruben Hart, who was a child during Prohibition-as they sink deeper into Ruben's story. ) suspenseful novel refers to a rumrunner-one of the boats used during Prohibition to smuggle outlawed liquor into the U.S. The title of Lisle's ( The Art of Keeping Cool

Black duck by janet taylor lisle