- Race relations, Mexican Americans, Schools, African Americans
Out of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937. Ashley Hope Perez has taken the explosion as her backdrop and imagined a diverse cast of characters whose broken lives are utterly captivating and tragically entangled with the school and the explosion.
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- Author
- Ashley Hope Pérez
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 405
- Publisher
- Lerner Publishing Group, Holiday House, Carolrhoda Lab
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781467776776
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