Copyright © 2001 by Karen Hesse
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Hesse, Karen
Witness / by Karen Hesse
p. cm
Summary: 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.

[1. Prejudices--Fiction. 2. Ku Klux Klan--Fiction. 3. Vermont--Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H4364 Wk 2001 [Fic]--dc21 00-054139

First edition, September 2001

Cover art © 2001 by Kim McGillivray
Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-34594-1

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