Toughboy and sister /
by Kirkpatrick Hill ; edited and with an introduction by Douglas G. Greene.
- New York : Puffin Books, 1992.
- 121 p. ; 21 cm.
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The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.