Philbrick, Rodman <br/><br/>
The young man and the sea / 
by Rodman Philbrick. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  2004. 
 - 192 
<br/><br/> After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-439-36830-8 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fathers and sons--Fiction<br/>Grief--Fiction<br/>Fishing--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Maine--Fiction