The Fishermen, the Horse, and the Sea

by Barbara Joosse and Barbara M. Joosse

Young Lester Smith is part of a fishing family on Lake Michigan. He loves playing on the beach with his little sister, helping Mama with chores, and watching the neighbor's big horse pull Papa's fishing boat onto shore. But Lester understands that the lake can be "soft as a kitten one day and terrible as a sea monster the next." On the autumn equinox of 1895, a wicked storm rolls into Port Washington, damaging a schooner on the lake and putting the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870209795
• ISBN13: 9780870209796
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5