By Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
A 2016 Coretta Scott King writer Honor e-book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for notable Children’s Literature.
In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award–winning novel, teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a unmarried violent act that leaves their university, their neighborhood, and, finally, the rustic bitterly divided via racial tension.
A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is seeking on the nook bodega. What he reveals as a substitute is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who error Rashad for a shoplifter, blunders Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen not anything for belligerence, error Rashad’s resistance to go away the bodega as resisting arrest, blunders Rashad’s each balk at each punch the cop throws as extra resistance and refusal to stick nonetheless as ordered. yet how will you remain nonetheless whilst a person is pounding your face into the concrete pavement?
There have been witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball participant and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by means of Paul when you consider that his personal father died in Afghanistan—and a video digicam. quickly the thrashing is all around the information and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to think that the guy who has primarily been his savior may very well be responsible. yet then Rashad is absent. And absent back. And back. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s most sensible friends—start to take facets. As does the varsity. And the city. Simmering tensions threaten to blow up as Rashad and Quinn are pressured to stand judgements and results that they had by no means thought of before.
Written in tandem by means of award-winning authors, this four-starred studies travel de strength stocks the alternating views of Rashad and Quinn because the problems from that unmarried violent second, the sort taken from the headlines, spread and reverberate to focus on an unwelcome fact.
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