Hiding Mr. McMulty

by Berniece Rabe

Mr. McMulty is a neighbor of Rass's family, a fellow sharecropper and one of young Rass's only friends. When the levee breaks and the resulting flood destroys Rass's family's home, the land's owner... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015201330X
• ISBN13: 9780152013301
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Hiding Mr. McMulty

The book is about a black man that has been running away from the KKK. The KKK finds him and burns his house down. A white man Mr. McMulty tries to help them by letting them stay in his house. But it doesn't work out because the KKK burns his whole farm down. So they took off, and they wanted to come up with a plan to stop the KKK from killing anymore people.

Critique from a 13-year-old

I found the book Hiding Mr. McMulty very enjoyable. The author, Bernice Rabe, described everything beautifully; for example, "Old leaves, which had been crisp and crackling enough to wake the dead last fall, were now matted to the ground and felt spongy to the foot." Many a time I got nervous or anxious and shivered in my seat. Rass lets out his emotions and the reader can feel them with him. This is why I feel that this book is realistic. The book takes pace a few years after the civil war. The Ku Klux Klan is active. The story tells of some of the deeds that they perform such as tarring and feathering. It is tells of the injustice that was around because of the color of your skin. Mr.McMulty was being chased for hanging a prize calf. Though this was wrong I don't think a white man would have been searched for as much as he. I also don't think that Nert, Mr. McMulty and the Whitley's landowner, would have kicked Mr. McMulty out of his house if wasn't African-American. In the book blacks are also not allowed in court, preventing Mr. McMulty from righting Nert's wrongs in a court of law. Rass Kindly hides Mr. McMulty from the law and encounters a few close calls. This book is suspenseful and I found it quite exciting. I would recommend this book to those interested in civil rights.