In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
- ISBN10 0140360778
- ISBN13 9780140360776
- Publish Date 25 June 1992 (first published 1 September 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2004
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Puffin Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 290
- Language English