Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
- ISBN10 039596394X
- ISBN13 9780395963944
- Publish Date 17 April 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 202
- Language English