The young man and the sea /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Blue Sky Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Fathers and sons > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Fishing > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction. Grief > Juvenile fiction. Fishing stories. Maine > Fiction.
Online Access:	Publisher description

Table of 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.