Title: Through the lock
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.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Canals, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Canals, fiction, Connecticut, fiction
Places: United States, Connecticut, New Haven and Northampton Canal (Conn. and Mass.), New Haven and Northampton Canal