Spite Fences

In the summer of 1960, at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement, thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh confronts her envy of her attractive, better-loved younger sister and her conscience after she witnesses a terrible act against a black man and special friend.

Teen & Young Adult

Krisher, Trudy

Literature & Fiction

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

In Spite Fences, Pert Wilson was the loyal friend who helped Maggie Pugh stand up for her beliefs. Now Maggie has moved away from Kinship, Georgia, and 15-year-old Pert is aching for something more than the tiny community she's always known. Her circle of trailer park neighbors and her supportive mother and older brother aren't enough for Pert; she is lonesome for the father she has never met. But when Pert's Daddy suddenly returns to Kinship and sets her neighborhood spinning, Pert is forced to reassess her concepts of home, loyalty, family, and kin.

Kinship

Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh has lived in Kinship, Georgia, all her life. In all that time almost nothing has changed. If you are poor, you live on the west side of town. If you are rich, you live on the hill in the north end and get to go boating at the country club in Troy. If you are white you use one bathroom at Byer's Drugs and if you are colored you use another. All that starts to change in the summer of 1960. It is the summer when Maggie's younger sister, Gardenia, triumphs in the Hayes County Little Miss Contest. It is the summer when Maggie must decide whether or not to tell anyone about the horrible thing she saw. Most of all it's the summer of Maggie's first camera, a tool that becomes a way for her to find independence and a different kind of truth.

Contemporary

Laurel-Leaf

A companion story to Spite Fences finds Pert longing for something new after Maggie moves away and reassessing her concepts of home and family when the father she has never met returns unexpectedly. Reprint.

Kinship (Laurel-Leaf Books)

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

Historical Fiction

Demco Media

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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.

Spite Fences (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Kathy has always enjoyed wearing hats. But when she turns nine, she learns that she has cancer. Kathy is scared, and she is especially angry when her chemotherapy treatments make her hair fall out. Suddenly hats aren't so much fun anymore.

Kathy's Hats: A Story of Hope

Children's Books

Albert Whitman & Company

On April 14, 1865, the night of President Lincoln’s assassination, Booth’s conspirator Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in his home just blocks from Ford’s Theatre. The attack, which left Seward and his son seriously wounded, is recounted in poignant detail in Fanny Seward’s diary. Fanny, the beloved only daughter of Seward, was a keen observer, and her diary entries from 1858 to 1866 are the foundation of Krisher’s vivid portrait of the young girl who was an eyewitness to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Fanny offers intimate observations on the politicians, generals, and artists of the time. She tells of attending dinner parties, visiting troops, and going to the theater, often alongside President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary. Through Fanny’s writings, Krisher not only skillfully brings to life the events and activities of a progressive political family but also illuminates the day-to-day drama of the war. Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.

Fanny Seward: A Life (New York State Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Syracuse University Press

In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith Common.

Uncommon Faith

Holiday House

When her parents demand they teach the students about the dangers of the atomic testing at her school in the midst of the 1954 hurricane season, Genevieve is challenged to find a balance between supporting her parents' political beliefs and developing friendships with her conservative classmates.

Fallout

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Spite Fences

Kinship

Spite Fences

Kinship (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Spite Fences

Spite Fences (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Kathy's Hats: A Story of Hope

Fanny Seward: A Life (New York State Series)

Uncommon Faith

Fallout