The murderer

"Good as a drink of seltzer on a hot day," says the Library Journal review of this coming of age story.Bucking intolerance in a crucial year of his life, Hershy Marks wonders why God plunked him down in Pennsylvania coal country but didn't amke him Polish. An essentially lighthearted boy, Hershy has a lot of questions. Why do the miners' kids beat up on the merchants' kids? Could what is happening in Germany happen here? And what can Hershy do about it?