Enoch

by Charles Raymond

The story of 12-year-old Enoch Parnell's experience when his family moves into a black ghetto where his father has just bought a hardware store - and where Enoch is one of the few white boys. The tensions between Enoch and the black gangs, and between Enoch and his parents accelerate. His family is befriended by a black handyman who helps them adjust. Interesting story for older children about race relations and civil rights, culmininating in the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

185 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1969