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The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.1.R4277 Bl 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school students--Juvenile fiction.
- High school students.
- Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992--Juvenile fiction.
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992.
- Families--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Families.
- 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.
- High schools.
- Schools.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult works.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 362 pages ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]
- Summary:
- With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
- 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? -- adapted from jacket
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reed, Christina Hammonds, The black kids
- ISBN:
- 9781534462724
- 1534462724
- 9781534462731
- 1534462732
- OCLC:
- 1123182400
- Publisher Number:
- 99986097298
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