ISBN 9780439452304
Witness
by Karen Hesse
Scholastic Press· 161 pp
$2.90
In stock at our Lewisville, TX store
Condition
B — Good
$2.90In stock
Description
Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves... These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.
Tags
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )Juvenile fictionJewish girlsUnited StatesAfrican American girlsRacismVermontAmerican fictionNovels in verse