Dodging Passover

What would you do if your family moved you from the only place you know—New York City—and you had to leave behind all your friends and familiar surroundings to a strange place, not just any strange place, Macon, Georgia? Times Square and endless shopping are out. Moving from the Big Apple to the Peach would probably be hard on any preteen, but especially twelve-year-old Ashley Williams, an Ethiopian Jew.

Ashley has heard some pretty scary stories about the Deep South. Now she has to move there. How will the South handle an Ethiopian Jewish girl? Ashley finds out just how hard life can be when she perceives people and places a certain way.