Our selected book

Our group met at the LBLL today to choose our book - we had a lot of great books to choose from - some from reads in years gone by, and others from the Honors Reading List, and still others that just looked interesting.  All were great selections, which made it hard to choose!

We decided on Carry On, Mr. Bowditch!  This book is a Juvinile Ficiton, a Newberry Award book, and one of my personal favorites!

Amazon describes it thus:  Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, and lookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.