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, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish. In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery-Award-winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
