num_pages: 240
description: It was raining, the morning that thirteen-year-old, runaway orphan Kyle Gissler stood on the overlook, twelve feet above the high tide marker of Tanner's Lonely Creek. He was looking down upon work boats docked in slips along the boardwalk. Skipjacks, they sailing work boats used for oystering in the Chesapeake Bay. An older man aboard one of the boats-oblivious to the rain-had Kyle's The old sailor was having trouble untangling tangled line. Kyle decided to offer help. He ran down the steps to the level of the boardwalk and hurried to the old sailor's boat. "I can help," he offered. Kyle, the boy protagonist in this novel, ONCE A RIVER BOY, is first introduced to you, the reader, at age ten. The old sailor, Captain Benson, a drawbridge tender, has befriended Kyle from that age-having taught Kyle how to scull a small dory; how to sail a sailing skiff into the wind; and other arts of seamanship ... including the patience to untangle crab line... The story spellbinds-adventure after adventure Kyle lives through as he matures into a tall, handsome adult. Though the story is primarily of adventure on water, there is also land-bound adventure-Kyle's involvement with two determined women. Rated G for a good read...
language: English
title: Once a River Boy
titlecomplete: Once a River Boy
publisher: Denlingers Pub Ltd