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.
year: 2004, 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: brothers, fiction, selective mutism, grandfathers, mutism, florida, history, 20th century, fiction, mutism, elective
Editions
Peck, Robert Newton
HarperCollins (2004)
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.
Schools: 3
Peck, Robert Newton
HarperTrophy (2005)
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.
Schools: 0