Description

Title: Witness

Author: Karen Hesse

ISBN: 9780439272001

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher :
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing 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 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.