Book
Witness
by Karen Hesse
- Published
- 2001
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 161
- Words
- 14825
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.0
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780439271998
- ISBN-10
- 0439271991
Tags
ALSC NotablesHistorical FictionHistory-Roaring 20sPeople-African AmericanPeople-JewishPoetrySocial Issues-Prejudice & DiscriminationUnited States-VermontVerse