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Walking on thin ice : on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it's more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed.
Ice-Out r eturns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova's beloved novel Frozen , and to the characters who made it a favorite among readers of all ages. Owen, smitten with Frozen 's Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, stranding his impoverished family, they get considerably tougher--and more complicated--when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a sheriff and deputy on the border.
Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, and by Mary Casanova's own family history, Ice-Out is at once a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.
Author Notes
Mary Casanova is author of more than thirty books for young readers, ranging from picture books, such as Utterly Otterly Night and Wake Up, Island (Minnesota, 2016), to novels, such as Moose Tracks (Minnesota, 2013) and Frozen (Minnesota, 2012). Her books are on many state reading lists and have earned the American Library Association Notable Award, Aesop Accolades from the American Folklore Society, Parents' Choice Gold Award, Booklist Editors' Choice, as well as two Minnesota Book Awards. She speaks frequently around the country at readings and library conferences. She lives with her husband and dogs in a turn-of-the-century house in Ranier, Minnesota, perched on the Canadian border.
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School Library Journal Review
Gr 9 Up-Owen Jensen, 19, longs to break away from his family's creamery business and start his own auto dealership in 1920s rural Ranier, MN. After his father unexpectedly dies, Owen, as the eldest of six brothers, gets dragged further into the responsibilities of the creamery and yearns for a life that would have included his sweetheart Sadie Rose, now off to college in St. Paul. Despite his father's previous warnings, the protagonist is pressed into accepting the loan he requested from local bootlegger Mr. Pengler to buy a fleet of Studebakers. He becomes indebted to Pengler and agrees to join a bootleg run in return. But icy conditions in the lake-filled U.S.-Canadian border village conspire against him and pull him further into illegal alcohol smuggling, with ultimately tragic results. Owen appeared as a secondary character in Casanova's Frozen but takes center stage here. While other characters from the earlier novel also appear, this volume can easily stand on its own. The plot seems uneven at times, but this title works best as an illustration of daily life during Prohibition and the conflicts of this period. VERDICT An additional purchase for collections in need of historical fiction.-Hillary St. George, Los Angeles Public Library © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Part I Deep Winter |
| Part II Slow Thaw |
| Part III Dreams of Summer |
| Author's Note |
| For Further Reading |
