The 1956 Newbery Medal winner, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham, is a fictionalized biography of the great American navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, whose 1802 book, The American Practical ...

Charlie, a teenager who’s had a tough childhood, befriends his isolated, elderly and very cranky neighbour, Mr. Bowditch, after a fateful meeting. Feeling a debt owed to the universe for the recovery ...

Stephen King’s newest novel, “Fairy Tale,” follows a teenage boy from Illinois named Charlie Reade who saves an old man’s life. The old man, a stranger named Mr. Bowditch, has an aging dog named Radar ...

E. Francis Bowditch, 77, headmaster of Lake Forest Academy during the 1940s, headed the school during a period that included World War II, a major fire and the subsequent move to the present campus.

Historians will remember Hoel Bowditch, who died last Wednesday at the age of 89, as an inventor and design engineer. The 75 patents he was awarded, most of them assigned to the Foxboro Co., certify ...

Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $18 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-618-25081-3 The 1956 Newbery Medal winner, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham, is a ...