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Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
2) Light it up
Author
Series
How it went down volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and...