Equal - Joyce Moyer Hostetter - Bog

"It's the summer of 1959 at the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when 13-year-old Jackie Honeycutt first bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. They hit it off, and Jackie hopes the two of them can be friends. But Jackie is white, and Thomas is Black--and Jackie quickly learns their growing friendship won't be easy"--Publisher marketing.