Beschreibung:
Catherine Gonzalez is a native of Rhome, Texas, and a descendant of the town founders. A retired school-teacher, she is the author of young-adult biographies of Cynthia Ann Parker, Jane Long, and Jean Lafitte, as well as a history of Rhome.
In 1923, when a young Czech American girl and her family move to a small Texas town so her father can work as a stonemason, they encounter prejudice from the townspeople and violence from the Ku Klux Klan.