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The Black kids
Call Numbers
- FICTION HAMM TEEN (CEN, OSH)
- FICTION HAMM (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]
Physical Description
362 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Summary
Los Angeles, 1992. It's the end of senior year and Ashley Bennett and her friends are spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. When four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death, violent protests engulf LA and the city burns. Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal; her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. The model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents built starts to crumble. Her friends are spreading a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson. Ashley is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?
Subjects
- High school students > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > California > Los Angeles > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 > Fiction.
- Family life > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
- High schools > Fiction.
- Schools > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.