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by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ashley Hope PérezAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2015-09-01Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:Carolrhoda Lab (R)ISBN-13:9781467742023ISBN-10:1467742023UPC:9781467742023Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Social ThemesBook Topic:Prejudice & RacismAward:2016 Tayshas Reading Highly Commended - Young Adult Award|2016 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book - Young Adult AwardSize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCNW7975Z9

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book

"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?"

New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive.

Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion--the worst school disaster in American history--as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.

"[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."--The New York Times Book Review

"Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews

"This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal

Language:EnglishPublisher:Carolrhoda Lab (R)ISBN-13:9781467742023ISBN-10:1467742023UPC:9781467742023Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Social ThemesBook Topic:Prejudice & RacismAward:2016 Tayshas Reading Highly Commended - Young Adult Award|2016 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book - Young Adult AwardSize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCNW7975Z9
Pérez, Ashley Hope: - Ashley Hope Pérez is the author of the YA novels Out of Darkness (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), The Knife and the Butterfly (Carolrhoda Lab, 2012), and What Can't Wait (Carolrhoda Lab, 2011). Her debut novel What Can't Wait won a spot on the 2012 YALSA Best Fiction for YA list, and The Knife and the Butterfly was included in the 2015 YALSA Popular Paperbacks list. Ashley grew up in Texas and taught high school in Houston before pursuing a PhD in comparative literature. She is now a visiting assistant professor of comparative studies at The Ohio State University and spends most of her time reading, writing, and teaching on topics from global youth narratives to Latin American and Latina/o fiction. She lives in Ohio with her husband, Arnulfo, and their son, Liam Miguel. Visit her online at http: //www.ashleyperez.com/.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab (R)

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🏆 2016 Tayshas Reading Highly Commended - Young Adult Award|2016 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book - Young Adult Award

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