Gail R. (abigailsdaughter) reviewed on 9/17/2014 + 201 more book reviews

Based on a historical incident in 1958, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Mendy, a school-aged African-American girl, and her white friend Jeffrey, discover that the Ku Klux Klan plans to destroy the Highlander Folk School, one of the few integrated institutions in the South, and assassinate Eleanor Roosevelt when she speaks there. Although their parents warn them to stay out of it, they manage to foil the plot. An afterword, with photographs, describes the historical situation and the founding of the Highlander Folk School. This story is probably unique in children's fiction, but the writing is rather pedestrian.

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