WASHINGTON STATE, 1925. Slava Petrovich - or "Cuss" because he can swear in fourteen different languages - knows he'll become a coalminer one day like his older brothers. For now, though, he is happy at school, hanging out with his best friends Perks and Skinny during the long, hot summers; fighting; and plotting daring train heists. But trouble is brewing in town - a dead man is found and Cuss's childhood begins to disappear fast, as he faces the most difficult decision he has ever had to make...
- ISBN10 0744590957
- ISBN13 9780744590951
- Publish Date 2 June 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English