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Success of the 2003 International Reading Relationship Award for Young Adult Novel. This gripping read is dependant on the true events of the murder of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most notorious crimes that helped spark the Civil Protection under the law Motion.
At first Hiram is fired up to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But immediately after he comes, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who's also going to for the summer. Hiram perceives firsthand the way the local whites mistreat blacks who won't "know their place." When Emmett's tortured useless body is available floating in a river, Hiram is set to discover who could do any such thing. But what will it cost him to learn?