has been given a prize from the city and will be put on display at the town hall. Further into the week, Mr. Hairston tells Henry that he will let him keep the job and he will get his brother's headstone on one condition: he must destroy Mr. Levine's model village. Not knowing what he should do, Henry hides in the storage room at the art center and finds a mallet. Henry falls asleep in the storage room and when he wakes up, he finds the art center deserted. Henry then finds the mallet and brings it above his head ready to smash the village, before deciding not to do it. Just then, a rat startles Henry and he drops the tool on the village, destroying part of it. Mr. Hairston waits for him at a closed furniture store in the rain. When Henry asks Mr. Hairston why he wanted Mr. Levine's village destroyed, Mr. Hairston explains: "Because he is a Jew." Henry refuses the reward and quits his job. Henry later visits the art center, where Mr. Levine, unfazed by his village being partially destroyed, is rebuilding it. George tells Henry Mr. Levine is "a survivor" and the ceremony date has been changed. Henry does not tell anyone what he did. Mr. Levine presents Henry with a carving of him like the ones he made for his village. Henry and his family move back to Frenchtown, where Henry puts Eddie's old baseball bat and ball on his brother's grave as a monument. 1992 American novels Novels by Robert Cormier American young adult novels Novels about the aftermath of the Holocaust