Title: Black duck
Description: Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
Subjects: Gangsters, Adventure stories, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Prohibition, History, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Prohibition, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Criminals, fiction, Rhode island, fiction
Places: Newport (R.I.), Newport, Rhode Island
Time periods: 20th century