A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier.

Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold.

Sig's only protection is a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin's storeroom.

The question is, will Sig use the gun, and why?Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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