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Karen Hesse
Witness

Children's fictionAfrican Americans

Witness

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First published: 2000
Language: English
Editions: 11

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Children's fiction
African Americans
Jews
Prejudices
1000blackgirlbooks
Vermont
Set in: Vermont

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