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Gr 6-8 In the early 1960s, Theodora Sanders, a white girl from a small town in Mississippi, finds her "town is in an uproar, ain't nobody safe." Teddy's world is held together by her loving relationship with Lizzie, the family housekeeper, but that world begins to shatter after she views a cross burning and then sees her best friend's father hanging from a tree. As African Americans become more forceful in their push for equality, Teddy's family relationships and her parents' marriage become increasingly straine...Log In or Sign Up to Read More