THE DEVIL'S PAINTBOX
Aiden, 15, and Maddy, 13, the only surviving members of a Kansas pioneer family, are taken in by Jefferson Jackson, an older man looking for “strays” to work in the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest during the gold rush in British Columbia.

Along the way, Aiden befriends Tupic, a young Nez Perce Indian guide who rescues him from drowning. In return, Aiden forms an outlaw gang to steal the smallpox vaccine—which Indians are not allowed to have—from the white man so that Tupic’s tribe can be saved.

Rights Sold
Germany - Dressler
U.S. - Knopf