Mississippi Morning

By Ruth Vander Zee
Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School, Middle SchoolGenre: Fiction
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2004
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The setting of this book is Mississippi in 1933, and the drama of racist cruelty and a white child's loss of innocence is elemental. A sad and poignant story about a period in American history, and on a more personal level, a son's disillusionment.