Captain Kate (An Avon Camelot Book)
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Books › Juvenile Fiction › General
ISBN: 0380976285 / Publisher: Camelot, February 1999
Determined to take her father's coal-carrying barge on the C & O Canal from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in D.C., twelve-year-old Kate learns hurtful truths about herself
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After her father dies, Kate assumes responsibility for financially supporting her family, including a pregnant mother, by making regular coal-selling journeys by canal boat and risking such dangers as bandits, bad weather, and frightening passages.
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