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A THOUSAND NEVER EVERS Shana Burg Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-73470-7 | June 2008 | $15.99 | Ages 9-12 Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-90468-1 | June 2008 | $18.99 | Ages 9-12

It is 1963 and twelve-year-old Addie Ann Pickett seems unaffected by the civil rights movement until a near riot erupts in her community of Kackachoo, Mississippi. It all started when Old Man Adams willed his garden to the town. The whites accuse Addie Ann’s Uncle Bump of destroying the garden and he is brought to trial before an all white jury. Elias, Addie Ann’s brother, disappears after a fight with a white boy, and now Uncle Bump’s shed and the Pickett’s small house is set fire. How does Addie Ann deal with these acts of racism? Does she remain silent, or is she stunned into action?

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Prepared by Pat Scales, retired director of library services, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities

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