Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.

They don't like him either. Melody is not like most people. LOVED this book!!!! There was a problem loading your book clubs. Live and make it …

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All she wants to do is to follow the rules. Jessica Kim.

Alicia D. Williams, Narrated by: I intend to read this with my class and I know it will have an impact. Jacqueline Woodson. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. This novel is on the 2019 Lone Star list; it is realistic fiction with a dash of historical fiction. Angie Thomas.

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Someone calls the cops; they arrive and shoot him dead.

Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey toward recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life.

This was an intelligent and well-executed story for children and adults, Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2018. Had I not, we likely wouldn’t have had the necessary conversation we did.

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Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death. Sorry, but we can't respond to individual comments.If you need immediate assistance, please contact Customer Care. It's free and yours to keep. I think I imagined more but nonetheless the topic and theme is powerful.

Jewel Parker Rhodes wrote a great book.

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This was an intelligent and well-executed story for children and adults...phenomenal in addressing its subject, yet also haunting long after the last page. I enjoy listening to him portray the different characters and their different demeanors. Live and make it better.

Live and make it better. He's just pretending to have a shootout like kids do.

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Live and make it better. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Brendan Kiely, Narrated by:

This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future.

Ibram X. Kendi - introduction, By: Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.