Nora, Nora

Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isnamp;#8217;t ready to share her widowed father with anyoneamp;#8212;certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she canamp;#8217;t be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears she might be staying forever.

But thereamp;#8217;s something troubling Peytonamp;#8217;s unorthodox cousin, something more than the outspoken town gossipsamp;#8217; complaints about Noraamp;#8217;s amp;#8220;unsouthern ways.amp;#8221; When the truth comes to light, it will rock the segregated small communityamp;#8212;and teach Peyton an unforgettable lesson about the enormous cost of love.