Blind Hill by Henry Fennell

It the late spring of 1968 and 13 year-old Coy is looking forward to the 7th grade dance, to the end of the school year, and to a summer of baseball and fishing. His plans are shaken when a civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King is murdered 50 miles away in Memphis, Tennessee.The people in the town of Harpeth Junction are on edge and unsure about the possible effects from the racial unrest nearby. For Coy, the is he dance goes badly and and two boys, one from Chicago and other from St. Louis, enter Coys life most unexpectedly. Follow these three boys through a summer of discovery and drama - a summer that will change their lives in ways that could not have imagined in Blind Hill.