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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
Twelve-year-old Foster is bereft without his father, killed in a recent accident in the woods. His family’s two-hundred-acre farm, Fourmile, “was something I was molded around, all I knew, the best of him and me and Mother.” Now, without his father, everything seems “still and quiet and lifeless,” and things get worse when his mother’s new boyfriend, Dax, shows up drunk and mean. But then a mysterious stranger comes into their lives and changes everything. He becom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Older Fiction
A gun-toting stranger, a jealous boyfriend, a woman caught in the middle, and the likelihood of violence--it sounds like some...Log In or Sign Up to Read More