Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
- ISBN10 0060529741
- ISBN13 9780060529741
- Publish Date 18 June 2004 (first published 25 May 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English