Witness by Karen Hesse
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale.Witness joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves.These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780439271998 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439271991 |
| Title | Witness |
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
| Year published | 2001-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 161 |
| Prizes | Winner of Bookseller's Choice (Young Adult) 2002, Winner of Christopher Awards (Young Adult) 2002, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Children's Literature) 2002, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2003 |
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