All American Boys: Carnegie Medal-Winning Author

ISBN-10: 0571366767
ISBN-13: 9780571366767
Series: All American Boys
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Pages: 269
Language: English
Published: 2021-03-02
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Authors: Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Description

A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?There were witnesses: Quinn - a varsity basketball player and Rashad's classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan - and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his saviour could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team - half of whom are Rashad's best friends - start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before.

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All American Boys: Illustrated Edition
- 2021-10-05
- 368 pages
- Paperback
- Faber & Faber
All American Boys
- 2016-09-27
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
All American Boys
- 2015-09-29
- 316 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
All American Boys
- 2015-09-29
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster

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