In Miami, Florida, ten-year-old Essie has trouble finding the strength and courage to overcome her feelings of fear, guilt, and shame when her father abandons their family, a classmate is kidnapped, and then a family friend molests her.
- ISBN10 0689852487
- ISBN13 9780689852480
- Publish Date 22 March 2005
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Margaret K McElderry Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 339
- Language English