Revolver

By Sedgwick, Marcus

Publishers Summary:
A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig’s father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold. Sig’s only protection is a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin’s storeroom. The question is, will Sig use the gun, and why?

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ISBN
978-1-59643-592-6
Publisher
Roaring Brook


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2010

Gr 7-Up In 1910, in a lonely cabin 100 miles north of the Arctic circle, Sig Andersson sits alone with his father's body while his sister and stepmother go for help. A sled crossing on thin ice had proved foolhardy for Einar, an otherwise prudent man, and his son found him half-submerged in icy water, frozen to death. When a menacing stranger bangs on the door, claiming to be Einar Andersson's ex-business partner, Sig wrestles with the possibility that his father had cheated prospectors out of gold in his ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on March 1, 2010

His family's cabin one hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle is Sig Andersson's entire world—a single, snug, well-lighted room twenty-four feet by twelve. Outside and beyond is all of the space in the world—cold, empty, and forbidding. And out of that world comes Gunther Wolff, a giant of a man demanding the gold Sig's father owes him from their days in the Alaska gold rush ten years before. Trouble is, Einar Andersson is dead,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Starred Review on January 1, 2010

His family's Arctic Circle cabin is Sig Andersson's entire world--a secure one until the day his father dies and the menac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Junior Library Guild

Reviewed on May 1, 2010

A tense and exciting psychological thriller that is hard to put down. The voice is clear and strong. Shifts in time and the slow revelation of details cause the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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