The Victim

Seven-year-old Jeff Davis is determined not to leave his mother—until his brother leads him out of the woods to meet a black pony with four white feet. One ride, one promise, and a reluctant boy is bound for a thousand-mile journey.

In the Mississippi wilderness, family love must contend with a hard frontier life and a brother’s fierce belief that education can lift a poor boy to greatness. Jeff is being sent north to a school in Kentucky, though his mother does not know, and the journey will take him far from the people he loves. His brother calls it a chance; Jeff sees the ache of leaving home, softened only by the pony waiting on the road. As the boy rides toward an unknown world, what will that journey ask of him?

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