Bert Breen's Barn Explained

Bert Breen's Barn
Author:Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator:Eric Sloane
Language:English
Genre:Children's novel
Publisher:Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date:1975
Congress:PZ7.E247 Be 1991 (later edition)

Bert Breen's Barn is a children's historical novel set in the early 1900s, written by Walter D. Edmonds and first published by Little Brown in 1975. The main character is Tom Dolan, an impoverished young man who lives in the north Adirondack country. The plot concerns Tom's fascination with Bert Breen's Barn, as well as the fortune that he believes to be buried beneath it.[1]

The book won the 1976 National Book Award in category Children's Books.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=CSoNAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Bert+Breen%27s+Barn Bert Breen's Barn
  2. https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1976 "National Book Awards – 1976"