Hiding Mr. McMulty
Berniece Rabe
Hardcover
(Harcourt Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1997)
In 1937 in southeastern Missouri, eleven-year-old Rass, son of a proud sharecropper, proves his worth when a flood destroys his family's home and forces his best friend, an elderly black man, into hiding from the Ku Klux Klan.