Out of Darkness
Pérez, Ashley Hope
Out of Darkness / Ashley Hope Pérez - New York : Holiday House , 2015 - 401 p. ; 21 cm
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. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
English
Michael L. Print Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Honor Book
9780823445035
African Americans----Fiction
Explosions----Fiction
Mexican Americans----Fiction
Race relations---Fiction
Schools----Fiction
YA FIC PER
Out of Darkness / Ashley Hope Pérez - New York : Holiday House , 2015 - 401 p. ; 21 cm
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. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
English
Michael L. Print Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Honor Book
9780823445035
African Americans----Fiction
Explosions----Fiction
Mexican Americans----Fiction
Race relations---Fiction
Schools----Fiction
YA FIC PER
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