This is Graceanne's book
By: P.L. Whitney.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780312272784
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The coming of age of two poor children in 1960s Mississippi, one a dynamic girl, the other her awed brother who narrates. The novel describes an ice-carving experiment to turn the baby Jesus into a "Negro," as well as their system of childhood justice which sets aside the weak as "dead kids."