Billy You is not a common name nor is he a common boy. Billy was an orphan boy in an orphan home with one other boy in the home also named Billy. One day the two Billy’s were fussing about something and one of the lady matrons spoke up and said “Billy, that is enough.” One of the Billy’s asked “Billy who?” and the lady matron answered “Billy You, that’s who!” Hence the name stuck. Billy You was leaving the home to live with foster parents, he didn’t want to, but he had no choice. The first few days were fine, then trouble came, big trouble. Now he was on the road trying to find his way back home, but trouble and problems followed him every step of the way. Would he make it back?
His name is Eric Wisdom. He's big, big all over, and he is ugly, very ugly, and mean-looking. But there is not a mean bone in his body. He is very frightening-looking. When people pass him, they move out, out of his way. But don't push him, for he can push back much harder. And now he's going to have to know many times.
A boy and a girl, both twelve years old, are the sole survivors of a plane that crashed high in the Rocky Mountains. They waited as long as they could for rescue to come for them. None came. Then came all the problems, troubles, and danger they went through going down the long, mean trail of that mountain.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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