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Twelve-year-old Skiff raises Dad's sunken fishing boat, not realizing the cost of rebuilding the engine. Deciding to earn the money by catching just one big fish, Skiff ends up battling a nine-hundred-pound bluefin. This fast-paced novel offers an atmospheric Maine setting, a hero to root for, and, in Skiff's clipped voice, a touch of rough-hewn poetry.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2004