Janice Daugharty

Pulitzer nominee Daugharty (EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, DARK OF THE MOON, WHISTLE) turns her impressive talents to Young Adult novels. Twelve-year-old Knot Crews, an African-American boy growing up in the segregated south Georgia town of Statenville, discovers a robber's lost bag of cash and is nearly overcome with the moral dilemma. Should he return it to the bank or ...-- Knot decides instead to help his needy neighbors, both black and white, and he begins mailing them hundred-dollar bills anony... more info>>