If you could become anyone in the world...who would you be?For Ryan and Taylor McKenzie the answer is simple: anyone but me!Eighth-graders Taylor and Ryan are twins. But that's where the similarities end.Ryan never met a test he couldn't fail. Give him a foot, he'll take an inch. Given half a chance, there isn't anything he won't screw up. Accordin...more

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...more