Cassie Logan and her brothers make a revealing discovery when an old African-American man calls a white storekeeper by his first name, in a story set in Mississippi in 1933. Reprint. Coretta Scott King Award.[...]
Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the passengers board the weekly bus from Jackson. When several white passengers arrive late, the driver roughly orders the black passengers off to make room. Then, in the driving rain, disaster strikes, and Jeremy witnesses a shocking end t[...]