Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh's abusive relationship with her mother and her close friendships within the African-American community of Kinship, Georgia stir up racial tension and threaten the town's way of life.
year: 1994, 1996
call number/section: 1000
subjects: race relations, fiction, mothers and daughters, georgia, fiction, mother-daughter relationship
Editions
Krisher, Trudy
Delacorte Press (1994)
As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence, hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town.
Schools: 1
Krisher, Trudy
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers (1996)
Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh's abusive relationship with her mother and her close friendships within the African-American community of Kinship, Georgia stir up racial tension and threaten the town's way of life.
Schools: 5