Title: The shad are running
First published: 1977
Description: Eleven-year-old Cornelius Van Loon is destined to be a fisherman but is terrified of the water. The collision of two steamboats on the Hudson River tests his courage.
Subjects: Fiction, Dutch Americans, Fishers, Fathers and sons, Children's fiction, Fishers, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, United states, fiction, Dutch, united states, fiction, Fishing, fiction, Fathers, fiction
Places: Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
LC classification: PZ7.S142 Sh