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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN-101416912509
ISBN-139781416912507
eBay Product ID (ePID)84520170
Product Key Features
Book TitleNight Fires
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial Themes / Death & Dying, Historical / United States / 20th Century, Historical / United States / General, General, Social Themes / New Experience, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
Publication Year2011
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorGeorge E. Stanley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight4.8 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2008-051607
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromThird Grade
Grade ToSeventh Grade
Dewey Decimal[Fic]
SynopsisIn 1922, Woodrow Harper and his mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his father., It's 1922, and thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father's hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will be able to find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. He is befriended by his new next-door neighbor, a powerful state senator who becomes the father figure Woodrow always wanted, who understands him in a way his own father never did. The senator introduces Woodrow to the "best" people in town, but Woodrow soon realizes the "best" people have some terrible secrets, and to be accepted by them he has to do things that make him abandon his own values, culminating in a terrifying act of violence close to home.