A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The

This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.

After a murder occurs in her quiet neighborhood, and her father runs off with another woman, ten-year-old Marsha begins investigating several people--including

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