According to the sequel, Let the Circle Be Unbroken:
T.J. Avery
T.J. is a friend of the Logan Children and gets put on trial for a murder committed by the Simms brothers but is still convicted for the murder [and sentenced to death] even though he gave solid evidence that R.W. and Melvin Simms commited the murder. He is responsible for making Mama lose her job in the first book. Also, in the first book T.J. is beaten up by R.W. and Melvin Simms after the murder and as a result, his ribs are broken.
So yeah, that's joyful.
I can't even find Kim/Kim online.
Mischling Second Degree is nonfiction about a girl who was a quarter-Jewish--and in the Hitler Your and all kinds of Nazi training camps. Apparently her parents didn't tell her that she was part Jewish until after the war was over.
Slake's Limbo sounds depressing as hell, but seems to end somewhat optimistically in that the kid seems to decide to stop running away in the end. Not that that's much.
I like your idea about showing people overcoming racism. That seems to send more of a useful message than "people are horrible and this is the way things are and you can't do anything about it."
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T.J. Avery
T.J. is a friend of the Logan Children and gets put on trial for a murder committed by the Simms brothers but is still convicted for the murder [and sentenced to death] even though he gave solid evidence that R.W. and Melvin Simms commited the murder. He is responsible for making Mama lose her job in the first book. Also, in the first book T.J. is beaten up by R.W. and Melvin Simms after the murder and as a result, his ribs are broken.
So yeah, that's joyful.
I can't even find Kim/Kim online.
Mischling Second Degree is nonfiction about a girl who was a quarter-Jewish--and in the Hitler Your and all kinds of Nazi training camps. Apparently her parents didn't tell her that she was part Jewish until after the war was over.
Slake's Limbo sounds depressing as hell, but seems to end somewhat optimistically in that the kid seems to decide to stop running away in the end. Not that that's much.
I like your idea about showing people overcoming racism. That seems to send more of a useful message than "people are horrible and this is the way things are and you can't do anything about it."