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.
- ISBN: 9780689505065
- Author: Hill, Kirkpatrick
- Published: 1990 , Margaret K. McElderry
- Themes: Alaska, Athabascans, Siblings, Survival stories
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, United States
- No. of pages: 128