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SOLVED. Coming of Age Historical Fiction. Boy has to take his blind father/grandfather's homemade shingles/tiles/some kind of handmade wooden items to sell in big city far away. Hijinks ensure on the trip with hundreds of these items by himself. [s]
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Jul 10, 2022 06:16PM
Not Johnny Tremaine. Coming of age historical fiction where a boy has to take his blind father/grandfather's homemade shingles/tiles/some kind of handmade wooden items to sell in a big city far away. Hijinks ensure on the trip with hundreds of these items by himself. He arrives in the big town (Boston/Jamestown/etc) only to find out the handmade items are no longer of value. Read it in middle school. Main character has an odd name. Cutting?
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Is the boy a teenager or a younger child?What year did you read it, approximately?
Probably young teenager.. whatever would have been appropriate for the time to travel solo. Mid 90's, probably 95 or 96.
I am looking for this too! It was shingles and he had a pair of oxen that he had trained that were pulling the load. I think that the title had something about a road through snowy woods in it? I read it in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was not a very long book and obviously not widely read.
Got it!Worldcat search.
Keyword: shingles
Title: road
Year range 1950-1996
Reluctant Hero: A Snowy Road to Salem in 1802
Reluctant hero : a snowy road to Salem in 1802
Author:Philip Brady
Front cover image for Reluctant hero : a snowy road to Salem in 1802
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Summary:In 1802, a thirteen-year-old farm boy, Cutting Favour, journeys to Salem, Massachusetts, to sell shingles and furs to provide food for his family and encounters many dangers along the way
Print Book, English, 1990
Edition:View all formats and editions
Publisher:Walker, New York, 1990
Cover: https://www.librarything.com/work/538...
That's it! Almost a year later and it's solved. My wife (a librarian) solved it with the Google search boy +shingles +snowy road. I tried every possible combination but it was the snowy road that was the key. I was SO CLOSE! Thank you everyone!
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From the Walker's American History Series for Young People by Dorothy Raymond Whittaker series by different authors - Bookel's find.
