'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the great differences that divided them, and when it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships.
- ISBN10 0141333340
- ISBN13 9780141333342
- Publish Date 6 January 2011 (first published 24 April 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Puffin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English