The Black kids /
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 Los Angeles and the city burns. A...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster BFYR,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 Los Angeles 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? |
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| Physical Description: | 362 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781534462724 1534462724 9781534462731 1534462732 |