![]() ![]() ![]() Ruben Hart has been involved in the rum-running business for most of the Prohibition, and he’s very good at it. The story is set in New England during 1929, and the Prohibition is at its height. In the book, the Black Duck plays this same role. The real Black Duck was a rum-running boat that transported rum from freight ships to the shore where smugglers moved it around the country. Lisle is a popular young adult mystery and suspense writer whose accolades include the Newbery Honor. ![]() Black Duck received nominations for the 2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award and the 2009 Missouri Truman Readers Award. The story was inspired by the real Black Duck smuggling boat in Rhode Island during the 1920s. Black Duck (2006), a young adult historical novel by Janet Taylor Lisle, is set during the Prohibition and follows a young boy who’s caught up in gang warfare and liquor smuggling. ![]()
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