![]() ![]() ![]() He is a two-time O'Neill playwright who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. ![]() His novels of adventure, comedy, and mystery have received the Children's Choice Award, an Edgar Award nomination, and honors from the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. Readers will devour this colorful yet tender story - reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird - told from the perspective of a young girl as she evolves into a woman.Ībout the Author: Ronald Kidd is the author of the highly acclaimed Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial, as well as On Beale Street. RONALD KIDD is the author of fourteen novels for young readers, including the highly acclaimed Night on Fire and Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial. Overnight the world is flocking to Dayton to decide: Are people really descended from monkeys? Does the theory of evolution have a place in biology class? As Frances sees the man she loves crumbling beside her, she begins to question her town, her neighbors, and the father she has always trusted. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. Synopsis: In a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, master storyteller Ronald Kidd reincarnates the most enduring trial of the twentieth century. ![]()
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