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Witness

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Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale
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.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.

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Publisher

New York, USA : Scholastic Inc., 2001

Collation

161 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0439272009

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NONE

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text

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Subject(s)

Prejudices
Novels in verse
Vermont
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

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