The nickel boys : a novel
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Published
New York : Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC., [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780345804341, 0345804341
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Lexile measure
HL 940L
Status
Le Center Public Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC., [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780345804341, 0345804341
Lexile code
HL
Lexile measure
940
Notes
Description
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.5,10,512399.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2020
Subjects
LC Subjects
Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction.
African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction.
African American teenagers -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Florida -- Fiction.
Florida School for Boys -- Fiction.
Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Novels.
Racism -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction.
African American teenagers -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Florida -- Fiction.
Florida School for Boys -- Fiction.
Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Novels.
Racism -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Whitehead, C. (2020). The nickel boys: a novel (First edition.). Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. 2020. The Nickel Boys: A Novel. New York: Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. The Nickel Boys: A Novel New York: Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys: A Novel First edition., Anchor/A Division of Penguin Random House, LLC., 2020.
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