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Out of Darkness / Ashley Hope Pérez

By:

Pérez, Ashley Hope

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Holiday House , 2015Description: 401 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780823445035

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

YA FIC PER

Awards:

Michael L. Print Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Honor Book

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Young Adult	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Juvenil	Juvenil	YA FIC PER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		058648

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

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