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Chapter 1

• A camp for German prisoners of war has just opened in Jenkinsville, Arkansas during World War II.

• Twelve-year-old Patty Bergen watches guards unload German prisoners from a train.

• Patty waves at one prisoner, but is stopped by a local woman.

• The prisoners are taken to the prison camp.

• Patty tells Ruth, her black housekeeper, about the prisoners.

• Ruth reminds Patty to be sweet and well-behaved to please her parents.

• Patty gets her six-year-old sister, Sharon, from the sandbox and the girls have lunch.

• Patty fears her father will punish her if he catches her saying Christian prayers.

• After lunch, Patty goes to the store and is alternately ignored and insulted by her parents.

• A customer complains about Ruth.

• On the way home, Patty wonders why the family who once owned the Chinese grocery store was harassed since they weren't Japanese.

Chapter 2

• The Bergens go to Memphis to...

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