Book
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- CENTRAL: Teen Collection
- EASTWOOD: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: New Item Collection
The weight of blood
Call Number
- FICTION JACK TEEN (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Physical Description
406 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives."--Jacket flap.
Subjects
- Racially mixed teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- Bullying > Juvenile fiction.
- Proms > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism in education > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism against Black people > Juvenile fiction.
- Passing (Identity) > Juvenile fiction.
- Secrecy > Juvenile fiction.
- Racially mixed teenagers > Fiction.
- Bullies > Fiction.
- Proms > Fiction.
- Racism in education > Fiction.
- Racism against Black people > Fiction.
- Passing (Identity) > Fiction.
- Secrets > Fiction.