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The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.

Hammonds Reed, Christina, (author.).

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781534462724
  • ISBN: 1534462724
  • ISBN: 9781534462731
  • ISBN: 1534462732
  • Physical Description: 362 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]

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Target Audience Note:
Ages 14 up. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

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