In a small Missouri town during the 1920s, Clem is torn between family responsibility and the life he wishes to lead when he must begin working in the lead mine on his thirteenth birthday to help pay for his sister's medical care.
- ISBN10 0823431916
- ISBN13 9780823431915
- Publish Date 31 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Holiday House
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 181
- Language English