Wanigan : A Life on the River

by WHELAN, GLORIA

• ISBN13: 9780375814297
• ISBN10: 0375814299
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Summary

Before the spring of 1878, 11-year-old Annabel Lee had never even heard of a wanigan. But she and her mother are now stranded on the small floating cookshack for three months while her father and the other loggers move their timber down the river to the mills at Lake Huron. With a constant threat of forest fires, timber pirates, and log jams, it's a perilous journey, especially for a delicate girl who'd rather read poetry than live in the rough company of loggers. But the Au Sable river and its shores soon reveal their beauties. And by the time the wanigan nears Lake Huron, Annabel can't imagine waking up without a brand-new surprise outside her window each morning. In a novel of rugged river adventure and evocative nature writing, Gloria Whelan brings 19th-century historyand one girl's summer river journeyto life for young readers.

Author Biography

<b>Gloria Whelan</b> won a National Book Award in 2000 for her novel <i>Homeless Bird</i>. She is the author of dozens of books for young readers, including <i>Goodbye, Vietnam</i>; <i>Hannah</i>; and <i>Next Spring an Oriole</i>.

Table of Contents

On This Home by Horror Haunted	p. 1
Lone Waters, Lone and Dead	p. 17
This Haunted Woodland	p. 33
In the Month of June	p. 51
Mountains Toppling Evermore	p. 72
All We Seek to Keep Hath Flown	p. 85
The Mossy Banks	p. 96
The Waves Have Now a Redder Glow	p. 110
The Weary, Way-worn Wanderer	p. 119
Map	p. 134
Author's Note	p. 135
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