Susie Yakowicz, writer
Saving the Schooner
Ten-year-old Isabel Marsh wants her papa to finish constructing a four-masted schooner he’s left half built on the ways. Papa had closed down the family-owned shipyard months earlier after a tragic accident that killed Isabel’s brother. Isabel sees the schooner as the key to Papa’s grieving heart. With the help of her ailing grandfather and a trusted shipyard worker, Isabel sets out to accomplish her goal.
Set in the early 1900s along the Kennebec River in Maine, Saving the Schooner is a story about coping with unwanted change. Downcast over the loss of her brother, a father who has grown distant, and a shipbuilding era that is coming to an end, Isabel rediscovers happiness through hope and determination.
