Julia Scheeres: 2 books

A New York Times bestseller: A memoir that “will break your heart and mend it again, but it won’t stop haunting you” (Entertainment Weekly). An ALA Alex Award Winner Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen years old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s...

In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his...