Author: Karen Hesse
Year: 2000
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Historical fiction, Award winners, Poetry, Children
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9780439272001
0439272009 |
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Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning skills are put to great use in
, a poetic tale about friendship, fanaticism, and the deadly undercurrents of racial prejudice. The story takes place in a small Vermont town in the year 1924, revealing the devastating impact of the Ku Klux Klan on this pastoral, insular community. At the heart of the tale are two motherless girls who come to the attention of the newly formed Klan: 12-year-old Leanora Sutter, who is black, and 6-year-old Esther Hirsch, who is Jewish.
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