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138 pp.
| Putnam |
July, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-399-23355-5$$15.99
(3)
4-6
It's 1961, and narrator Meg is the only black student in her fourth-grade class at Parkview, where her white teacher mistrusts her and air-raid drills unnerve her. After Lucky, a white neighbor, approaches Meg's parents with his interest in the civil rights movement, they become unintentionally complicit in a tragedy that shakes the whole Mayfield community. This engaging sequel to Mayfield Crossing is as heartbreaking as it is hopeful.