Nine-year-old Junior Nelson experiences pain and shock when he sees what he shouldn't see. His travails deepen when the grown-ups in his world do not believe his story. Should he now tell a lie to please society and keep his family from unraveling? Junior's confusion is unabated as he watches truth and disbelief wrestle in mortal combat. This book won the 2003 ANA/MATATU Prize for Children's Literature.