Beyond Mayfield

by Vaunda Michaeux Nelson

Book Description

Nelson shines at limning some of the misunderstandings and misreading of adults that are part of every childhood in this sequel to Mayfield Crossing (1993), but is more intent on evoking a time and place than in telling a story. Meg lives in the idyllic town of Mayfield Crossing, where blacks and whites live together in harmony, but attends school in Parkview, where, in the early 1960s, it's not quite so perfect. Some of her classmates are bigots, and her substitute teacher, Mrs. Davis, loses a pen and focuses on Meg as the thief. When Lucky, the white older brother of her close friend and neighbor Dillon, joins the Freedom Riders and is killed, Dillon blames Meg's family for talking him into going; Meg begins to wonder if in fact they are responsible.

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