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The Black kids
- Title
- The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.
- Author
- Hammonds Reed, Christina
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- 362 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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
- 1900-1999
- 1992
- 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 > Fiction
- High school students
- African Americans
- Families
- High schools
- Race relations
- Schools
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- California > Los Angeles
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult works.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 14 up.
- Grades 10-12.
- Awards (note)
- William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist, 2021.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-603
- ISBN
- 9781534462724
- 1534462724
- LCCN
- 2019035025
- OCLC
- 1123182400
- Author
- Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.
- Title
- The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Ages 14 up. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
- Awards
- William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist, 2021.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-19991992
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-603