Eleven-year-old Jack Dalton, a sensitive student at a private school in New York City in 1943, wants to go to Battan as a soldier just like his dead father, but instead he proves his bravery in an encounter with a mysterious hobo.
- ISBN10 0374304769
- ISBN13 9780374304768
- Publish Date 1 April 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 101
- Language English