When 13-year-old Ben Ward left school to work with his Pa in a logging camp, a winter of peeling potatoes wasn't the adventure he had in mind. Taking up where Blackwater Ben left off, Dead Man's Rapids returns to Minnesota's north woods in the late nineteenth century, and with warmth, humor, and attention to historical detail engages readers young and old.
William Durbin is a writer and former teacher who lives on Lake Vermilion at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. A winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and a two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, he has published eleven novels for young readers, including The Broken Blade, Wintering, and, also published by Minnesota, Song of Sampo Lake, Blackwater Ben, and The Darkest Evening.
Barbara Durbin is a lifelong educator who has worked as an elementary school teacher and a teacher of gifted and talented programs.
