"Many voices, one town. 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 afe, especially not the two youngest: twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish." --back cover.