A Difficult Boy
By M. P. Barker
(Holiday House, Hardcover, 9780823420865, 298pp.)
Publication Date: April 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism, Social Issues - Friendship, Historical - United States - 19th Century
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Description
In Farmington, Massachusetts, in 1839, nine-year-old Ethan experiences hardships as an indentured servant of the wealthy Lyman family alongside Daniel, a boy scorned simply for being Irish, and the boys bond as they try to right a terrible wrong.











