Captain Kate

by Carolyn Reeder

Book Overview

Determined to take her father's coal-carrying barge on the C & O Canal from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in D.C., twelve-year-old Kate learns hurtful truths about herself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380976285
• ISBN13: 9780380976287
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

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Twelve year old Kate has never gotten over her father's death two years ago or her mother's remarriage last year. She resents her new stepfather, stepsister, Julia, stepbrother, Seth, and the new baby Mama is expecting. Since Kate's stepfather is away fighting in the Civil War, Mama decides to rent the family's canal boat, since she feels to poorly to pilot it to Georgetown on the canal. Kate decides to take the boat herself; so with her stepbrother, she sets off. Can Kate and Seth manage to make the trip on their own? And can they manage to forget their grudges and work together