Reprint: Originally published: New York : Penguin Putnam, Inc., c2001.
"First Scholastic printing, February 2003"--T.p. verso.
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market."--P. [4] of cover.
Companion volume to: Gratefully yours.
Summary
In 1923, twelve-year-old Hank and his older brother Peter travel on the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where they find a miserable existence living on a farm with a disagreeable and abusive couple whose only use for the brothers is as unpaid help.