Everything you need to understand or teach Peace, O River by Nancy Garden.
Kate Kincaid, returning to River View, Massachusetts for her junior year in a regional high school, discovers that much has changed since she moved away in the sixth grade: students from affluent River View and working-class Hastings Bay across the river are feuding. The feud heats up when a nuclear waste disposal site is planned for one of the two communities. Kate becomes friends with Pippa Brown, a Hastings Bay girl, and the...