Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Joe and John are a lot alike. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John is black. And in the South in 1964, that means john henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is.'