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Title The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.
Author Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]
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 Alafaya  YA FIC HAM    Check Shelves
 Eatonville  YA FIC HAM    Check Shelves
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Edition First edition.
Description 362 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Audience Ages 14 up. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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
Subject High school students -- Fiction.
Young adult 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 -- Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / General.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
High schools. (OCoLC)fst00956288
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Schools. (OCoLC)fst01107958
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992) (OCoLC)fst01910488
1992
Genre Young adult fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
Historical fiction.
Related To Online version: Reed, Christina Hammonds, The black kids First edition. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] 9781534462748 (DLC) 2019035026
ISBN 9781534462724 hardcover : $18.99
1534462724 hardcover
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