The local librarians know the gossip on almost everyone and a trip to Wal Mart inevitably becomes a socializing experience. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. It is long across and about two miles wide. Readers will devour this colorful yet tender story - reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird - told from the perspective of a young girl as she evolves into a woman.ĭayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Overnight the world is flocking to Dayton to Are people really descended from monkeys? Does the theory of evolution have a place in biology class? As Frances sees the man she loves crumbling beside her, she begins to question her town, her neighbors, and the father she has always trusted. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. In a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, master storyteller Ronald Kidd reincarnates the most enduring trial of the twentieth century.
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