Bert Breen's Barn
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Bert Breen's Barn is a children's novel by Walter D. Edmonds
Walter D. Edmonds
Walter "Walt" Dumaux Edmonds was an American author noted for his historical novels, including the popular Drums Along the Mohawk , which was successfully made into a Technicolor feature film in 1939 directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.-Life:In 1919 he entered The...

 set in the early 1900s. The book was published in 1975 by Little Brown & Co. The main character is Tom Dolan, an impoverished young man who lives in the north Adirondack
Adirondack Mountains
The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties....

country. The plot follows his fascination with Bert Breen's Barn, as well as the fortune that he believes to be buried beneath it. The book won the 1975 National Book Award for children's literature.
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