Spite Fences

Trudy Krisher. Laurel Leaf Library, $6.5 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22016-9

""This painfully realistic first novel evokes tensions in the South at the brink of the civil rights movement,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) r

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