Tex
Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at fifteen likes  everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny  Collins's blue-eyed sister, Jamie. He thinks life with his  seventeen-year-old brother, Mason, in their ramshackle house would be  just about perfect if only Mace would stop complaining about Pop. Pop  hasn't been home in five months. Mace wants to get out of Oklahoma. Tex  just seems to attract trouble and daneger . . . Suddenly everything's  falling apart. Can Tex keep it all together?