| Abstract |
Los Angeles, 1992. It's the end of senior year and Ashley Bennett and her friends are spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. When four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death, violent protests engulf LA and the city burns. Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal; her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. The model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents built starts to crumble. Her friends are spreading a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson. Ashley is left to question who is the us? And who is the them? -- adapted from jacket |
| Interest age level |
Ages 14 and up |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 9-12 |
| Audience |
830 Lexile |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Reed, Christina Hammonds, The black kids First edition. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] 9781534462748 |
| Genre/form | Bildungsromans. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Young adult fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2019035025 |
| ISBN | 9781534462724 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1534462724 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781534462731 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1534462732 |
