Spite Fences

Spite Fences by Krisher, Trudy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780440220169.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh has lived in Kinship, Georgia, all her life. In all that time almost nothing has changed. If you are poor, you live on the west side of town. If you are rich, you live on the hill in the north end and get to go boating at the country club in Troy. If you are white you use one bathroom at Byers Drugs and if you are colored you use another. All that starts to change in the summer of 1960. It is the summer when Maggies younger sister, Gardenia, triumphs in the Hayes County Little Miss Contest. It is the summer when Maggie must decide whether or not to tell anyone about the horrible thing she saw. Most of all its the summer of Maggies first camera, a tool that becomes a way for her to find independence and a different kind of truth.