Night on fire / Kidd, Ronald

When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a group of peace activists riding interstate buses protesting segregation, will be traveling through Anniston on their way to Montgomery, she feels that perhaps change is finally coming.

Thirteen-year-old Billie Sims, a white girl in 1960s Alabama, and her black friend Jarmaine, get caught up in the Freedom Rides passing through her town on the way to Birmingham. Along the way, change comes to Billie, her family, and her town in big and small ways.

"When Billie hears about a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders passing through Anniston to protest segregation on buses, she thinks change could be coming. But instead of embracing change, Billie's town responds with violence, and she finds herself at Forsyth & Sons Grocery watching a bus burn. Shocked by the actions of people she thought she knew, she realizes that freedom has a cost. But is she brave enough to stand up and fight for it?"--Dust jacket.