Night Fires
By George Edward Stanley
(Aladdin, Hardcover, 9781416975595, 192pp.)
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Family - General, Historical - United States - 20th Century, Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism
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An unflinching look at a painful chapter in America’s past
It’s 1922, and Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father’s hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. Instead, in his new neighbor, Senator Crawford, Woodrow finds something that offers even more comfort—a father figure who understands him in a way his father never did. But there are ugly secrets beneath the surface in Lawton, and Woodrow’s desperate need for the senator’s approval may force him to make difficult decisions he will live to regret.
George Edward Stanley, Professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages at Cameron University, has written numerous COFA titles as well as chapter book series for Random House and our own Scaredy Cats and Third Grade Detectives series. He lives in Lawton, Oklahoma, the setting for Night Fires.
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