Shantymen of Cache Lake

By Bill Freeman

Book Overview

This is the story of 14-year-old John Bains and his sister Meg, 13, and the winter they spend working in alumber camp in the Ottawa Valley. Their father has been killed and they have to find work to support their family. After a long and adventurous trip, the two reach the camp to find it torn by tension between the forman and the lumbermen. Meg and John are drawn into the fight as the work alongside the shantymen. The story reaches a dramatic end with the dangerous and exciting log drive down the Ottawa River.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888620918
• ISBN13: 9780888620910
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 10

Customer Reviews

Very good

I enjoyed reading about some of the history of Canada. I vacation at the Algonquin Provincial Park every year. This will be our fifth year. The children had alot of courage and the girl was a little spitfire. I would be interested in reading other historical fiction by this same author. The actual pictures in the book brought the story to life.

children went to work for family because father dies

I found that this book was pretty interesting, but I think it could of been more realalistic to the point where the story was to made up.I dont think that in real life anybody would send two kids out on their own with a worker that broke his leg. But other than that a thought the book had alot of exictement and good explanation during the story. I also believe that your explanation of how the shantymen life was back in the day was very good.