Through the lock
By: Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780439382380
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Orphans; Canals
Description: Eleven-year-old orphan Etta Prentice is determined to find a home where she and her siblings can live together as a family. She stumbles on an abandoned cabin on the newly-completed New Haven and Northampton Canal. But the cabin is already occupied by twelve-year-old Walter, who moved there to escape his father. Etta and Walter must work together to survive the harsh winter and keep their new home a secret.
Notes: "An Apple paperback."

"Apple fiction"--Spine.

08-12.