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Moonshiner's son

Twelve-year-old Tom is proud to work at the family still in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, until Amy, a preacher's daughter, challenges his way of life.

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  • "Twelve-year-old Tom is proud to work at the family still in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, until Amy, a preacher's daughter, challenges his way of life."@en
  • "As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom learns about hard work and honesty."
  • "Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more than to please this rough, distant man. Then a preacher comes to the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to rid Bad Camp Hollow of the "evils of liquor." This is when Tom and his father begin their campaign to match wits with the preacher and try to outsmart the law officers he calls in. Tom's father is eloquent in defense of a way of life long and respectfully lived by the Higgins family. But the preacher and his pretty daughter make a powerful case against it. And when drink causes a tragedy in the community, Tom Higgins is torn..."@en

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  • "Juvenile works"
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Moonshiner's son"@en
  • "Moonshiner's son"