- Prejudices, Ku Klux Klan, Fiction, Jews
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Hesse
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 161
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning, Turtleback Books, Scholastic
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781338359671
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