Rebecca Langston-George
All About Me
Rebecca Langston-George is the author of nineteen books for children. Her titles have been
published internationally and recognized as NCSS-CBS Notable Social Studies Trade Books and appeared on several state reading lists. She received the Armin R. Schultz Award for writing that promotes social justice. A retired educator, Rebecca volunteers as the Regional Advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Central-Coastal California and serves on the board of the California Reading Association. When she’s not doing school visits, Rebecca writes and mostly rewrites on a treadmill desk at one mile per hour. Read more about Rebecca and her books at www.rebeccalangston-george.com
My HP Books
All her life, Esther Hopkins has been told she has a mighty fine voice.
Still, she can’t believe her luck when just days after moving to town she’s invited to sing a solo at the 1923 Independence Day picnic. But the group sponsoring the picnic is not the benevolent fraternal order they claim to be. Worse, they’ve recruited her father, the town’s freshly ordained Baptist minister, to become their chaplain. When they target the immigrant family of her new best friend, Esther must risk her father’s anger, the KKK’s revenge, and her family’s safety to follow her conscience, salvage her friendship, and find the strength to speak truth to power even if it costs all she holds dear.
AUTHOR NOTES
Though the Ku Klux Klan’s reign of terror during both Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era is
well-known, their 1920s campaign against Italian and Irish Catholic immigrants is largely
forgotten. Xenophobia and hatred thinly disguised as patriotism led to the Klan’s near total
control of Protestant churches and government offices in the state of Indiana in 1923.
