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Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books (2017), Edition: Reprint, 336 pages
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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LibraryThing member Brainannex
Jason Reynolds could rewrite the phone book and I would read every word.
Rashad and Quinn go to the same school, their circles of friends and teammates have slight overlap, but only one of them is beaten by a cop under suspicion of theft while the other watches. This book touches on many of the
Rashad and Quinn go to the same school, their circles of friends and teammates have slight overlap, but only one of them is beaten by a cop under suspicion of theft while the other watches. This book touches on many of the
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issues that we have had in our local and national conversations about race, power, and control. Show Less
LibraryThing member alsparks
Quinn and Rashad go to the same high school. One is black, one is white. When Rashad is beaten by a white police officer the community takes sides. Quinn witnessed the beating. Quinn is a close family friend of the police officer involved in the beating. Very well written and appropriate in light
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of modern America and police brutality in the news. How will Quinn react? Will he just keep quiet and go on living? Or will he bow to his conscience and do the right thing? Makes you stop and think about the America we live in today. Excellent book written in alternating perspectives of Quinn & Rashad. Show Less
LibraryThing member Susan.Macura
This is the story of two teens, one black and one white. Rashad is on his way to meet friends when he stops at the local corner market to purchase a soda and chips. While this is a normal occurrence, something different happens that day, and through a minor misunderstanding, balck kid Rashad is
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accused of stealing and beaten badly by a cop who happens to be white. Outside the market observing all of this transpire it Quinn, a white kid who also plays basketball with Rashad and is best friends with the white cop’s brother. The result is Rashad, a talented art student and ROTC kid, ends up in the hospital while the film of the beating circulates everywhere. The community becomes divided along lines of race. Accusations of racism and police brutality are everywhere. Quinn finally has to acknowledge and stand up to describe what he saw as well as admit that racism and prejudice still exist in today’s society. This is a compelling and timely novel where all of the characters are compelling, making this look at these issues relatable. Show Less
LibraryThing member froxgirl
Two authors here, librarything! Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely - one black, one white. Two points of view on an incident of violence at a local convenience store in a "changing" neighborhood: Rashad, black teenager, is profiled, attacked, and beaten by a police officer who accuses him of
The incident and community reaction are up-to-the-minute. More importantly, we are plunged into the inner thoughts and outer lives of the two boys and their circle of friends and family. Intimate thoughts and public actions are portrayed with a searing combination of outrage and sensitivity. Rashad, in particular, will awaken any white reader who "doesn't see color" to the fact that not only do Black Lives Matter, but that each black girl and black boy is a singular and unique growing human, just like white readers see white characters. Black readers will recognize many members of their community. All readers will be memorably enriched.
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shoplifting. Quinn, white teenager, is the witness - a classmate and high school basketball teammate of Rashad's and the surrogate son of the police officer who brutalized Rashad.The incident and community reaction are up-to-the-minute. More importantly, we are plunged into the inner thoughts and outer lives of the two boys and their circle of friends and family. Intimate thoughts and public actions are portrayed with a searing combination of outrage and sensitivity. Rashad, in particular, will awaken any white reader who "doesn't see color" to the fact that not only do Black Lives Matter, but that each black girl and black boy is a singular and unique growing human, just like white readers see white characters. Black readers will recognize many members of their community. All readers will be memorably enriched.
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LibraryThing member acargile
This novel is a response to the protests that have occurred across the United States in the last couple of years. Jason Reynolds writes the black-side of the story, and Brendan Kiely writes the white-side of the story. For those of you sensitive to language, you will want to skip this novel.
The
Rashad only knows pain. He hurts from the beating and from his father’s assumption that he did something wrong and didn’t follow his father’s advice. When Rashad’s brother finds and releases the video to the news, life changes. Rashad sees his image on the news constantly. He’s a good teen and certainly doesn’t deserve what happens to him and finds life changing as he stays in the vacuum of his hospital room as the world and others take over making him a cause.
The novel truly isn’t about Quinn and Rashad; it’s about the entire student body as a microcosm of America. Quinn and Rashad are the symbols of “white” and “black.” As to everyone else, the students at Rashad and Quinn’s school are left trying to do the right thing by understanding what happened and trying to change the world with understanding and ending with a lawful protest; they don’t want to be bystanders but people who advocate change for the better--at least some of them. Sides are taken, but most in the novel are on one side. There are enough characters placed in the novel to have “others” who disagree.
At one point, there’s a moment of solidarity in a class where the students read Invisible Man, the novel they are reading in class, aloud. Somehow, this novel is mis-titled. If an author is going to cite a piece of literature and publishers are going to publish it, they should know the true title. The title they quoted was a book by a white English man instead of a book by a black American author. Beyond this gross negligence of editing, the book is a political statement. The ironies, unfairness of life, assumptions, prejudices, and anger that split people are all present. The characters are mostly stereotypes with little character development. Ironically, the authors’ point is that people need to know the facts and the true person instead of expecting a stereotype.
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novel is told in alternating points of view between Rashad, a young black teen and Quinn, a young white teen. Rashad is brutally attacked by a white cop and Quinn witnesses the attack. The problem is that the cop is a father-figure for Quinn. Paul, the cop, has helped him ever since Quinn’s father died. Seeing him commit such violence leaves Quinn feeling lost. He doesn’t understand how someone he knows well and has been so good to him could have so much violence within. Everyone plans on partying this Friday night, but Rashad doesn’t make it because he’s in the hospital. Video is released to the press, so when students return to school on Monday, they find a new atmosphere. Rashad only knows pain. He hurts from the beating and from his father’s assumption that he did something wrong and didn’t follow his father’s advice. When Rashad’s brother finds and releases the video to the news, life changes. Rashad sees his image on the news constantly. He’s a good teen and certainly doesn’t deserve what happens to him and finds life changing as he stays in the vacuum of his hospital room as the world and others take over making him a cause.
The novel truly isn’t about Quinn and Rashad; it’s about the entire student body as a microcosm of America. Quinn and Rashad are the symbols of “white” and “black.” As to everyone else, the students at Rashad and Quinn’s school are left trying to do the right thing by understanding what happened and trying to change the world with understanding and ending with a lawful protest; they don’t want to be bystanders but people who advocate change for the better--at least some of them. Sides are taken, but most in the novel are on one side. There are enough characters placed in the novel to have “others” who disagree.
At one point, there’s a moment of solidarity in a class where the students read Invisible Man, the novel they are reading in class, aloud. Somehow, this novel is mis-titled. If an author is going to cite a piece of literature and publishers are going to publish it, they should know the true title. The title they quoted was a book by a white English man instead of a book by a black American author. Beyond this gross negligence of editing, the book is a political statement. The ironies, unfairness of life, assumptions, prejudices, and anger that split people are all present. The characters are mostly stereotypes with little character development. Ironically, the authors’ point is that people need to know the facts and the true person instead of expecting a stereotype.
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LibraryThing member KatieLamb
2016, realistic fiction, police brutality, loyalty, friendship, protest, racism, ya, African American
LibraryThing member blackrabbit89
With All American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely have written a moving, timely story about police brutality toward young Black men in America. I listened to this book as an audiobook, and it was outstanding.
This story is really two stories: the interconnected experiences of Rashad Butler, a
Rashad spends several days in the hospital with serious injuries. Meanwhile, his school is in an uproar. Students have created a hashtag, #RashadIsAbsentAgainToday. A video of Rashad being beaten is all over the news. His older brother wants to make sure that people know what happened to him.
At first, Quinn feels torn–Paul Galluzzo is like a father to him, someone he loves and looks up to–but Quinn knows that what he saw wasn’t right. Throughout this book, he learns how to be an ally to Rashad, even if it means losing some of his closest friends.
This is an incredible story of two young men and their community struggling to face what has happened to Rashad, struggling to call it what it is—racism—and learning how to fight this injustice.
Quinn and Rashad are believable, well-developed characters. The story manages to come across as genuine, not condescending or didactic, and the ending gave me chills. It’s an honest portrayal of teens learning how to acknowledge and protest police brutality and racism in America, and it’s excellent.
This story is really two stories: the interconnected experiences of Rashad Butler, a
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sixteen-year-old Black boy who is beaten at a convenience store, and Quinn Collins, a white boy who witnesses it. After school one day, Rashad stops to buy some chips at a local store. While reaching for his cell phone, which is in his open bag on the floor, a white woman accidentally backs up into him and trips. As Rashad and the woman apologize to one another, the store manager looks over, sees Rashad’s open bag, and assumes he is trying to shoplift. He alerts a white cop in the store, Paul Galluzzo, who sees the woman on the floor and assumes that Rashad is harassing her. He pulls Rashad out of the shop, throws him onto the ground, and beats him mercilessly.Rashad spends several days in the hospital with serious injuries. Meanwhile, his school is in an uproar. Students have created a hashtag, #RashadIsAbsentAgainToday. A video of Rashad being beaten is all over the news. His older brother wants to make sure that people know what happened to him.
At first, Quinn feels torn–Paul Galluzzo is like a father to him, someone he loves and looks up to–but Quinn knows that what he saw wasn’t right. Throughout this book, he learns how to be an ally to Rashad, even if it means losing some of his closest friends.
This is an incredible story of two young men and their community struggling to face what has happened to Rashad, struggling to call it what it is—racism—and learning how to fight this injustice.
Quinn and Rashad are believable, well-developed characters. The story manages to come across as genuine, not condescending or didactic, and the ending gave me chills. It’s an honest portrayal of teens learning how to acknowledge and protest police brutality and racism in America, and it’s excellent.
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LibraryThing member EllsbethB
This book addresses some important points about racism and activism in our current society. While the found the writing style to be just ok, the juxtaposition of dual perspectives was a good choice. This book has the potential to stimulate thoughtful conversations.
LibraryThing member lilibrarian
A woman tripped over Rashad at the corner market, sending the chips he was about to purchase flying. A cop in the store accused him of trying to steal the chips, dragged him outside and beat him. Suddenly, the school seems to divide into black and white
LibraryThing member ewyatt
Rashad and Quinn alternate chapters in this story that explores police brutality and contemporary racial issues. Rashad is in a store trying to buy chips and some gum on a Friday after school. He finds himself accused of shoplifting and getting a severe beating by a police officer. Quinn witnesses
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the beating from the police officer, who happens to be a neighbor and Quinn's older brother. Rashad is hospitalized with internal bleeding and traumatized. His friends and family rally around him. Soon there is a protest march planned and racial tensions simmer on the basketball team. A timely book. Some strong language peppers the book but it is used in realistic ways as the teens navigate issues of police brutality, dealing with trauma, and forging a path even when it is controversial. Show Less
LibraryThing member fromthecomfychair
A black boy is unfairly accused of theft by a white store owner and a cop, and then brutally beaten by the cop, to the point where he spends five days in the hospital. A white classmate witnesses the beating, and has to decide how to respond. Written by two authors, one black, one white, this book
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honestly explores the reactions of both boys and their friends and families. Definitely a good read. Recommend to boys who are reluctant readers. Show Less
LibraryThing member susan.h.schofield
Very good, thought provoking book that should be required reading for high school students
LibraryThing member jimrgill
This bold and compelling YA novel tackles a sensitive and potentially incendiary topic—police violence against people of color—in an effective and realistic manner. Told from the alternating perspectives of two adolescent male narrators, the story demonstrates quite vividly the vast differences
Rashad, an African-American ROTC student, narrates most of his story from a hospital room, where he’s recovering from the brutal violence he suffered at the hands of a white officer, who suspected him of attacking a woman and robbing a convenience store. The officer is a close family friend of Quinn, a white, well-respected son of an Iraqi War vet who was killed in action. Quinn, who is Rashad’s classmate but doesn’t know him well, witnesses the assault and spends most of the novel struggling with questions of racism, privilege, and inequality.
Reynolds and Kiely wisely keep Rashad and Quinn apart for most of the novel—and the effect is powerful. This technique highlights the disparity in their worlds and the impact that each boy’s race has on his life experience. Very much a contemporary novel, the story alludes to fairly recent and well publicized acts of police violence against Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and others.
The novel is a quick read, yet that does not detract one iota from its impact or the authenticity of its social commentary. Reynolds and Kiely have crafted a gripping, trenchant narrative featuring believable characters coping with current social problems that have real consequences. This novel belongs in the hands of every teenager and secondary English teacher in the country.
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that exist between the worlds that each teen inhabits despite the school and community that they share.Rashad, an African-American ROTC student, narrates most of his story from a hospital room, where he’s recovering from the brutal violence he suffered at the hands of a white officer, who suspected him of attacking a woman and robbing a convenience store. The officer is a close family friend of Quinn, a white, well-respected son of an Iraqi War vet who was killed in action. Quinn, who is Rashad’s classmate but doesn’t know him well, witnesses the assault and spends most of the novel struggling with questions of racism, privilege, and inequality.
Reynolds and Kiely wisely keep Rashad and Quinn apart for most of the novel—and the effect is powerful. This technique highlights the disparity in their worlds and the impact that each boy’s race has on his life experience. Very much a contemporary novel, the story alludes to fairly recent and well publicized acts of police violence against Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and others.
The novel is a quick read, yet that does not detract one iota from its impact or the authenticity of its social commentary. Reynolds and Kiely have crafted a gripping, trenchant narrative featuring believable characters coping with current social problems that have real consequences. This novel belongs in the hands of every teenager and secondary English teacher in the country.
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LibraryThing member JCLHeatherM
Smartly told from two unique point of views, all dealing with the same earth shattering event, the book is smart to let readers come to their own conclusions on the issue rather than stump for one side over another. Ultimately, communities come together through adversity and the truth comes out in
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LibraryThing member LisCarey
Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins are students at the same high school, just typical high school kids. Quinn is a star on the school basketball team. Rashad's not an athlete, but several of his friends are on the team with Quinn.
Rashad is black and Quinn is white.
One day, Rashad stops at the local
Quinn doesn't see what happens inside the store, but he sees the aftermath, when the cop, Paul Gallucci, has Rashad down on the ground, his face ground into the pavement, beating on him even after he's handcuffed. There's another witness also, a woman who records the whole thing on the phone once they're outside.
The cop, Paul Gallucci, is a friend of Quinn's family, the man who has been in many ways a substitute father to him since his own father was killed in Afghanistan.
Rashad and Quinn each tell their own stories of the days that follow, with different narrators voicing them. For Rashad, much of that time is in the hospital, as he recovers from his injuries. He's painfully aware that he could easily be dead, and despite what his lawyer tells him, he's not convinced being innocent is going to get him acquitted of shoplifting and resisting arrest.
Quinn has to square what he saw with what he's always thought and felt about Paul Gallucci, and decide what he's going to do about it. Rashad also learns some painful truths about his own father, an ex-cop.
This is a fascinating and moving novel, examining very real issues that affect us all, whether we all realize it or not. Rashad and Quinn, their friends, and at least some of their families learn a great deal, and it is a genuinely powerful story.
Highly recommended.
I borrowed this audiobook from my local library.
Rashad is black and Quinn is white.
One day, Rashad stops at the local
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bodega to pick up a bag of chips. A white woman accidentally trips over him, knocking them both to the floor. A cop sees them, and Rashad's backpack on the floor where it fell open, and leaps to the conclusion that Rashad was shoplifting. He seizes and starts beating on Rashad.Quinn doesn't see what happens inside the store, but he sees the aftermath, when the cop, Paul Gallucci, has Rashad down on the ground, his face ground into the pavement, beating on him even after he's handcuffed. There's another witness also, a woman who records the whole thing on the phone once they're outside.
The cop, Paul Gallucci, is a friend of Quinn's family, the man who has been in many ways a substitute father to him since his own father was killed in Afghanistan.
Rashad and Quinn each tell their own stories of the days that follow, with different narrators voicing them. For Rashad, much of that time is in the hospital, as he recovers from his injuries. He's painfully aware that he could easily be dead, and despite what his lawyer tells him, he's not convinced being innocent is going to get him acquitted of shoplifting and resisting arrest.
Quinn has to square what he saw with what he's always thought and felt about Paul Gallucci, and decide what he's going to do about it. Rashad also learns some painful truths about his own father, an ex-cop.
This is a fascinating and moving novel, examining very real issues that affect us all, whether we all realize it or not. Rashad and Quinn, their friends, and at least some of their families learn a great deal, and it is a genuinely powerful story.
Highly recommended.
I borrowed this audiobook from my local library.
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LibraryThing member SamMusher
This is probably the most important YA novel of the last few years. There, I said it. If your students (7th grade , I'd say) want to understand Black Lives Matter -- either because they see the issue in the news, or because they live it -- they need this book. This is possibly the best book I've
Same recommendation goes for adults. Read it, read it. Or better yet, listen to it; the two actors who perform the audiobook add a powerful dimension to Rashad and Quinn's stories.
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ever read about the process of awakening to the idea that some people are treated less fairly by the world than others, and what's scary about facing that and engaging with it.Same recommendation goes for adults. Read it, read it. Or better yet, listen to it; the two actors who perform the audiobook add a powerful dimension to Rashad and Quinn's stories.
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LibraryThing member robinmusubi
The subject this novel tackles is, without doubt, one of the most important issues in America today. This book sucked me in, and I found it hard to put down. It comes off as preachy at times, and while some anvils need to be dropped and indeed the preaching itself is well written, it makes the
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dialogue feel occasionally awkward and unnatural. This book also introduces a lot of conflict but very little resolution, appropriate because the true problem is far from resolved, but slightly unsatisfying to read. This may be another novel that is useful for opening the eyes of the people opposed or indifferent to the Black Lives Matter movement, and I would recommend it to anyone, but I hope what ground this novel broke proves fertile for more complete and moving works. Show Less
LibraryThing member DrFuriosa
I would argue that this is the most important young adult novel I have ever read in my life. It is heartrending in a way I never thought possible and so very important. If you read nothing else this year, please read this book.
#RashadIsAbsentAgainToday
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LibraryThing member Sarah220
This story is told from two perspectives - from two All-American Boys. Except one is white and one is black. Their lives become entwined when Quinn (white boy) witnesses a police officer beating up Rashad (black boy) without cause. Quinn and Rashad are both forced to confront race and racism in
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their community and in the country. Very well written and heart wrenching and beautiful. Show Less
LibraryThing member BDartnall
Alternating narrators: Rashad, ROTC, great art student, black and Quinn, same school, basketball player, white. With authentic voices & teen perspective, story unfolds of Rashad stopping into corner store for a bag of chips, having white lady trip over him, store owner panicking, thinking he's
Rest of the book traces the growing media coverage, the students' reactions, the slow recovery of the injured Rashad - weeks in the hospital!- the growing dread of Quinn, who reluctantly faces up to his own role in the incident, bystander but witness - and the growing protest movement that emerges from the aftermath. Perfect book for a study in racial relations/police brutality/anti-racism - includes discussion questions. Could be paired with The Hate U Give - male protagonists instead of female. Coretta Scott King award winner 2015.
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seeing something else - and a white police officer showing up, reacting suddenly, and pummeling Rashad until he's almost passed out on the sidewalk. The officer, Paul Galluzo, is Quinn's neighbor, older brother to his buddy Guzzo; Quinn was approaching the corner store just as Officer Galluzo was finishing his beating - at first frozen in shock, Quinn backtracks and warns his buddies in the alley to take off: sirens begin and Officer Galluzo's back up and an ambulance are arriving. Rest of the book traces the growing media coverage, the students' reactions, the slow recovery of the injured Rashad - weeks in the hospital!- the growing dread of Quinn, who reluctantly faces up to his own role in the incident, bystander but witness - and the growing protest movement that emerges from the aftermath. Perfect book for a study in racial relations/police brutality/anti-racism - includes discussion questions. Could be paired with The Hate U Give - male protagonists instead of female. Coretta Scott King award winner 2015.
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LibraryThing member reader1009
teen fiction (race issues, all too real), Coretta Scott King Award winner. This didn't get really good until about halfway through, when Quinn starts really thinking about whether he can stay neutral, and characters start revealing their layers. A truly complicated issue and something that needs us
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all to take a good honest look at before things can improve. Thank you, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Show Less
LibraryThing member Mrs.Try
The story is told in two voices. Rashad is a 16-year-old Black boy who is a member of his ROTC at school. His dad is always on his case about not looking like “one of them” but overall he’s a good kid. Quinn is a white boy who plays basketball at the same school. Although the two boys don’t
On a Friday night, Rashad is accused of trying to shoplift a bag of chips. A police officer in the store drags him outside and severely beats him. Quinn witnesses the beating, but when he realizes the officer is a man who has been a stand-in dad for him, Quinn runs. As Rashad heals in the hospital, Quinn is forced to acknowledge things he has ignored in the past. Teachers at school are avoiding what happened, but the students are starting to speak up.
Although written in 2017, it reads like it could have been written today. This book has been challenged many times--profane language, drug and alcohol abuse, promoting “anti-police” views, having divisive topics, and being “too much of a sensitive matter right now." Yes, it is a sensitive matter right now which is all the more reason why we should be reading it today.
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know each other, they know many of the same people. Rashad’s chapters are written by Reynolds while Quinn’s chapters are written by Kiely.On a Friday night, Rashad is accused of trying to shoplift a bag of chips. A police officer in the store drags him outside and severely beats him. Quinn witnesses the beating, but when he realizes the officer is a man who has been a stand-in dad for him, Quinn runs. As Rashad heals in the hospital, Quinn is forced to acknowledge things he has ignored in the past. Teachers at school are avoiding what happened, but the students are starting to speak up.
Although written in 2017, it reads like it could have been written today. This book has been challenged many times--profane language, drug and alcohol abuse, promoting “anti-police” views, having divisive topics, and being “too much of a sensitive matter right now." Yes, it is a sensitive matter right now which is all the more reason why we should be reading it today.
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LibraryThing member ms_rowse
Should be required reading for everyone. Loved every page. Cried three times.
LibraryThing member wanderlustlover
Summer 2021 (July);
Fall School Book Club pre-read
Another pre-read this one from two viewpoints, one of a black student and a white student at the same high school dealing with the ramifications of unlawful violence visited on the first of those two and witnessed by the second. This is such an
I'm really excited to see how the students take this read.
Fall School Book Club pre-read
Another pre-read this one from two viewpoints, one of a black student and a white student at the same high school dealing with the ramifications of unlawful violence visited on the first of those two and witnessed by the second. This is such an
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honest portrait of where the world finds itself on both sides and I love how complicated and vulnerable, honest and confused, the navigating is. I'm really excited to see how the students take this read.
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LibraryThing member skstiles612
Jason Reynolds has written a powerful book here with a powerful message. Rashad Freeman is a young African American who has stepped into a local store to buy a snack. His trouble begins when a white lady trips over him. The store owner causes him of trying to steal and the cop in the store takes
Quinn Collins is a white boy on his way to a party with friends when he heads to the local store to get some beer. What Quinn gets is a front row seat to a young boy being beaten. The problem is that it is someone he knows and looks up to.
What struck me was how the events that happened could have been ripped right out of the headlines today. As a teacher I could read how the teachers were feeling knowing they were told not to talk about it. I've been in their shoes where we've been told not to discuss certain incidents with students in the classroom. I felt like some of the teachers were told how they were supposed to feel.
I was happy the way the author handled the tensions within the school and community. Awesome book everyone should read.
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things a little too far. Rashad is beaten to the point of being hospitalized.Quinn Collins is a white boy on his way to a party with friends when he heads to the local store to get some beer. What Quinn gets is a front row seat to a young boy being beaten. The problem is that it is someone he knows and looks up to.
What struck me was how the events that happened could have been ripped right out of the headlines today. As a teacher I could read how the teachers were feeling knowing they were told not to talk about it. I've been in their shoes where we've been told not to discuss certain incidents with students in the classroom. I felt like some of the teachers were told how they were supposed to feel.
I was happy the way the author handled the tensions within the school and community. Awesome book everyone should read.
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Awards
Soaring Eagle Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2017)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 9-12 — 2017)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2017)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2019)
Green Mountain Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
Thumbs Up! Award (Top Ten — 2016)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2018)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2018)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2018)
Coretta Scott King Award (Honor — 2016)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Teen — 2018)
Margaret A. Edwards Award (2023)
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Honor — 2018)
Florida Teens Read Award (Nominee — 2017)
The Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2018)
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (Finalist — Winner — 2016)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2018)
Westchester Fiction Award (Winner — 2016)
Milwaukee County Teen Book Award (Honor Book — 2017)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2018)
Evergreen Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Honor Book — 2018)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
James Cook Teen Book Award (Honor Book — 2017)
Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature (Winner — 2016)
In the Margins Official List (Fiction — 2016)
CCBC Choices (2016)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (High School — 2017)
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Top Ten — Fiction — 2017)
Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens (Audiobooks — 2016)
Nerdy Book Award (Young Adult Literature — 2015)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Teen — 2015)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Teens (Fiction — 2015)
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Fiction)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2015
Physical description
8.25 inches
ISBN
1481463349 / 9781481463348
Local notes
2nd copy used from Goodwill