In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: running, juvenile fiction, poverty, mothers and sons, organized crime, fiction, richmond (vic.), juvenile fiction, australia, history, 1901-1922, fiction