- Race relations, Law & Crime, Juvenile fiction, Violence
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints. Two teens grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and spare.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Thorndike Striving Reader, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781481463331
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