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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

Riot / Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Egmont USA,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2009

Description:

164 p. : ill., map ; 21 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.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 2009.

Summary:

In 1863, 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 the draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

ISBN:

1606842099 (pbk.)
9781606842096 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)726846175

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)