2014 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST Feisty fourteen-year-old
Josephine Fiedler is reluctant to support her father's bid for mayor of
Tucson in 1882: "I could be sealing my fate, helping to elect someone
who wants nothing more than my docility." With a mind of her own, Jo is
in constant conflict with her father and demands nothing less than the
freedom he promised after uprooting the family from "civilized" Boston
to the Wild West of Arizona because of his health. When trouble erupts
during the election campaign and her father's opponent attacks him for
being an Israelite, Jo has to reconsider her position and even what it
means to be a Jew. Inspired by Tucson's first Jewish mayor, Tucson Jo is
packed with derring-do while dealing with serious moral issues.