Witness

Author:   Karen Hesse
Publisher:   Scholastic US
ISBN:  

9780439272001


Pages:   161
Publication Date:   01 March 2003
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. 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.

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Author:   Karen Hesse
Publisher:   Scholastic US
Imprint:   Scholastic US
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9780439272001


ISBN 10:   0439272009
Pages:   161
Publication Date:   01 March 2003
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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This lyrical novel powerfully records waves of change and offers insightful glimpses into the hearts of victims, their friends and their enemies. Publishers Weekly Remarkable and powerful . . . a thoughtful look at people and their capacity for love and hate.. School Library Journal Add this to the Holocaust curriculum, not because every racial incident means genocide, but because the book will spark discussion about how such a thing can happen even now. Booklist, starred review What Copeland created with music, and Hopper created with paint, Hesse deftly and unerringly creates with words. -- Kirkus Reviews


This lyrical novel powerfully records waves of change and offers insightful glimpses into the hearts of victims, their friends and their enemies. - Publishers Weekly<br><br> Remarkable and powerful . . . a thoughtful look at people and their capacity for love and hate.. - School Library Journal<br><br> Add this to the Holocaust curriculum, not because every racial incident means genocide, but because the book will spark discussion about how such a thing can happen even now. Booklist, starred review<br> What Copeland created with music, and Hopper created with paint, Hesse deftly and unerringly creates with words. -- Kirkus Reviews<br><br><br>


This lyrical novel powerfully records waves of change and offers insightful glimpses into the hearts of victims, their friends and their enemies. Publishers Weekly Remarkable and powerful . . . a thoughtful look at people and their capacity for love and hate.. School Library Journal Add this to the Holocaust curriculum, not because every racial incident means genocide, but because the book will spark discussion about how such a thing can happen even now. Booklist, starred review What Copeland created with music, and Hopper created with paint, Hesse deftly and unerringly creates with words. -- Kirkus Reviews This lyrical novel powerfully records waves of change and offers insightful glimpses into the hearts of victims, their friends and their enemies. - Publishers Weekly Remarkable and powerful . . . a thoughtful look at people and their capacity for love and hate.. - School Library Journal Add this to the Holocaust curriculum, not because every racial incident means genocide, but because the book will spark discussion about how such a thing can happen even now. Booklist, starred review What Copeland created with music, and Hopper created with paint, Hesse deftly and unerringly creates with words. -- Kirkus Reviews


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Karen Hesse is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children. Her titles include Witness, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and the Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust, among many others. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.

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