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Author:

Pérez, Ashley Hope, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010053747

Title:

Out of darkness / Ashley Hope Pérez.

Publisher:

Holiday House,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

402 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Explosions--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
New London (Tex.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
London School (New London, Tex.)--Explosion, 1937--Fiction.
New London (Tex.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Explosions--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Explosions--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Écoles--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Relations raciales--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Noirs américains--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
African Americans
Explosions
Mexican Americans
Race relations
Schools
Texas--New London
Explosions--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Explosions--Fiction.
School stories.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
1900-1999
Fiction
History
Young adult works
Fiction.
Romans.

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Carolrhoda Lab, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc"--Title page verso

Summary:

It's 1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism-- and the potential consequences of defying "the rules"--Better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Can their love survive both prejudice and tragedy? Race, romance, family-- and the real-life New London school explosion-- converge in this riveting novel that transplants Romeo and Juliet to a bitterly segregated Texas town
Includes a fascinating author's note detailing the process of research and writing about voices that have largely been excluded from historical accounts.
On March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the combined junior-senior high school in the small East Texas town of New London, killing approximately 294 students and teachers.

ISBN:

9780823445035
0823445038

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1123174682

Locations:

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

RKPA371 -- Rippey Public Library (Rippey)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)