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Author:

Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.

Title:

The Black kids / [large print] / Christina Hammonds Reed.

Format:

[large print] /

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

567 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

High school students--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Large print books for youth.

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

ISBN:

1432887661
9781432887667

Locations:

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)