Title: The taste of spruce gum
First published: 1966
Description: Libby's mother travels to a Vermont lumber camp to marry her dead husband's brother, whom she's never met. Libby takes an instant dislike to the place and to her stepfather, and the story is the working out of the complicated relationships. It's set in 1903 and the lumber camp and many of the events are true.
Subjects: Lumber and lumbering, fiction, Vermont, fiction, Children's fiction
LC classification: PZ7.J13617 Tas