The Murderer — Felice Holman

The author's description. Bucking intolerance in a crucial year of his life, Hershy Marks wonders why God plunked him down in Pennsylvania coal country but didn't make 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 why can Hershy do about it?