Return to History Mystery BooksIn 1958, 12-year-old Mendy Thompson discovers nighttime intruders in her secret forest clearing in Monteagle, Tennessee. They’re members of the KKK and are plotting to bomb Highlander School during a speech by Mendy’s hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. With no one to turn to, Mendy must find a way to stop the KKK herself.
by Evelyn Coleman
2002 Georgia Writers Association - Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Fiction Award
Ages 10 and up; 160 pages; available in soft cover only.