Cassie

Cassie is the narrator

She has two little brothers named little man and Christopher-John she had another brother named stacey. All though Stacey was taller then her she was older than him. Stacey was 12, little man is 6 years old and he is a clean freak! Christopher-John is 7 years old.

They all lived in missessipii in 1933. Cassie's father owns 400 acers of land but they are having trouble paying the taxes on the land because the price of cotton is down. So her father goes to work for the transcontnental trailroad laying tracks.

Cassie's father is wooried that his children might not be able to live on their own land.

"look out there cassie girl,all that belongs to you. You aint never had to live and the family survives, you'll never had to".(p.g.4)