Susan Ehlers O'Connor

It is 1964, and the NAACP has helped to place four Negro students in the small Louisiana town of Carlton High School during their senior year to begin the process of integration. Fourteen-year-old Lizzie Rowan's mother, Louise Rowan, is the senior English teacher who recognises that one of these students, Reginald Washington, is exceptionally bright. Lizzie becomes friends with Reginald—Reggie—when...