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In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
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Fiction, Race relations, Juvenile fiction, Prejudices, African Americans, Coretta Scott King Award, Blacks, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Values & Virtues, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Children's fiction, Travel, fiction, Tennessee, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, African americans, fictionPlaces
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First Sentence
"It was hot."
Edition Notes
Puffin Teenage Fiction S.
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