An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. So when she's forced to attend public school she's terrified. She fears the new world she must enter, fears the way she sticks out next to other kids, and--most of all--fears she may do what her brother did: run away and join the sinful but great wide world she's only just discovering.

 

This book is part of a book series called Harcourt Young Classics .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 151 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Cengage Learning, Inc .

VIRGINIA SORENSEN (1912-1991) was born in Utah, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West.