A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Cover:Hardcover with a loaded gun

with a loaded gun

this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother

and finding one's place in the world

" warns Dad

whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Cover:Hardcover with a loaded gunThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An