''Bert Breen's Barn'' is a children's

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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.Bert Breen's Barn

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. Retrieved on 2007-12-25 The book won the 1976 National Book Award in category Children's Books."National Book Awards – 1976"

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