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Description

When the influenza epidemic strikes Duluth, Minnesota, in 1918, Marven's parents send their son far away from the danger of the disease. But a logging camp in the great north woods? A true story of a small Jewish boy and a bearish French-Canadian lumberjack . . . and how they became friends... read more

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After his great-aunt Sadie died of the influenza, Marven's mother and father decided to send him away from the city to keep him safe.

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  1. Kathryn Lasky (Author)
 

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