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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

Riot / Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Egmont USA,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

164 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863--Juvenile fiction.
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Riots--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.

Notes:

Written in screenplay format.

Summary:

In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

ISBN:

1606840428 (lib. bdg.)
9781606840429 (lib. bdg.)
1606840002 (hardcover)
9781606840009 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)297147822

LCCN:

2009014638

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