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Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.

First sentence: Percival Sweetbutter, the chief of police in Yazoo City, Florida, held a bent and battered Georgia license plate in one hammy hand, a telephone in the other.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

HarperTeen

Editions

4

Pages

160

ISBN

9780060529765

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