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A Heart Divided Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | March 2004 | $15.95 | 0-385-32749-8 | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | March 2004 | $17.99 | 0-385-90039-2 | Ages 12 up

Imagine moving from New York City to a small southern town in Tennessee where the Confederate flag is the high school's insignia and the name of the school team is the Rebels. When Kate and her family move to Redford, her liberal views immediately embroil her in a controversy over a petition to change the traditions. Then, she meets and falls in love with Jack Redford, whose ancestors built the town and represent everything Southern. Both Jack and Kate, and by extension their families, are forced to face prejudice and bigotry. When Jack's mother sends him to military school to keep him away from Kate, Jack is forced to make some tough decisions. And make them he does, but neither Kate nor Jack realize that only a tragedy will pull the town together, and the cost for peace will be paid in blood.

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Prepared by Susan Geye, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Ninth Grade Campus, Crowley, TX

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