Title: The cursed ground
Description: When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia.
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile fiction, African Americans, Childhood and youth, History, Children's fiction, Florida, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, African americans, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Slavery, fiction
Places: Eatonville (Fla.)
People: Zora Neale Hurston
Time periods: 20th century