The Changelings

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The Changelings is a novel by Jo Sinclair first published in 1955 by McGraw Hill. Features tomboy protagonist Judith "Vincent" Vincent, a 12-year-old who is the newly deposed leader of a gang of pre-teen and teenage children in her Jewish/Sicilian neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.
The novel follows the lives of several of the children and adults in the neighborhood in late summer through fall as African Americans begin to move into their neighborhood and their neighbors begin to move to "the heights." During this time, Vincent befriends Clara, an 12-year-old African American tomboy who lives a few blocks south of her neighborhood. She also deals with her sister's ostracization from the family for marrying a non-Jew.