Books with author Trudy Krisher

North Carolina, 1954. A hurricane is on its way — one of the biggest on record. Fourteen-year-old Genevieve is comfortable in her small beach town. Like every teen, she has the usual troubles with her parents, but nothing was ever out of the ordinary. Just the way it has always been.Then Brenda Wompers a West-coast California girl sweeps into town -- changing everything.Outspoken and opinionated, Brenda doesn't think twice about speaking out against the town's Cold War values. The people of Easton love nukes, hate communists and believe that God blesses America best.The people of Easton won't tolerate having their cherished beliefs challenged -- no matter how wrong-headed. The town turns against Brenda and her family, turning these new neighbors into outcasts. Whispers become accusations; accusations turn to violence.As Gen witnesses her friend suffer a cruel and hateful backlash, she begins to question everything she's grown up 'knowing.' As the storm brews, Brenda and Gen soon discover that in Easton, North Carolina, there are things far more dangerous than a hurricane.

In Spite Fences, Pert Wilson was the loyal friend who helped Maggie Pugh stand up for her beliefs. Now Maggie has moved away from Kinship, Georgia, and 15-year-old Pert is aching for something more than the tiny community she's always known. Her circle of trailer park neighbors and her supportive mother and older brother aren't enough for Pert; she is lonesome for the father she has never met. But when Pert's Daddy suddenly returns to Kinship and sets her neighborhood spinning, Pert is forced to reassess her concepts of home, loyalty, family, and kin.

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 Byer’s Drugs, and if you are colored you use another. All that beings to change in the summer of 1960. It is the summer when Maggie’s younger sister, Gardenia, triumphs in the Hayes County Little Miss Contest. It is the summer when Maggie must decide whether to tell anyone about the horrible thing she saw. Most of all it’s the summer of Maggie’s first camera, a tool that becomes a way for her to find independence and a different kind of truth.