The Woodsman's Boy: How a ten-year-old boy from London became an expert Adirondack guide.

Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Children's Literature. William Chadwick is a scholar with big plans although he's only nine years old. His comfortable life as a popular, rich schoolboy in London is ruined when his grandparents die, and he is forced move to a remote American wilderness to live with the father he has never met. William's father is a poor Adirondack woodsman working as a guide for the wealthy elites, showing them where to fish and hunt. During William's harsh and lonely life as a guide in the deep woods he becomes an expert woodsman and boat builder, and learns secrets about his family that his grandparents kept hidden.

Author: April Blanchard
Publisher: Tioga Point Press
Published: 06/26/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780990327400

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