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Gr 6-Up Small-town Tennessee in the 1950s comes vividly to life in this story of a risky friendship. David, nine, and Malcolm, eight, are both firecrackers, full of mischief and way too curious and independent to accept the rigid social norms that the adults around them take for granted. David's physician father, Franklin Church, lays down the law: Malcolm is black and thus inferior, and may never enter the Church home. As adolescence approaches, David applies to Barlow Academy in the North at his father's insistence. S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

David, a white doctor's son, lives in Tennessee during the early 1950s. He shares a friendship as deep as brotherhood with...Log In or Sign Up to Read More