When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
High school seniors Neil and Paul are in love but find that their families and schoolmates have trouble accepting a gay relationship.
The New York Times bestselling novel about police brutality in the US - now fully illustrated by Akhran Girmay.
The Gospel of Winter maps the ways love can be used as a weapon against the innocent—but can also, in the right hands, restore hope and even faith.
rough men were around Salisbury, hoping Campbell would arrange a meeting on his behalf. “You sure must have a few tough men the way you boys lynched the nigger and got away with it,” Patsy said. Campbell responded, Let me tell you, ...
"Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love"--
The author of the acclaimed Montana 1948 “spins charm and melancholy” in this novel of youth and romantic rivalry in 1960s rural Minnesota (Denver Post).
Photographs and rhyming text describe children growing up in America today.
He poignantly relates the story of the devastating Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and his own later successful flight on Apollo 7.
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor ...
Or at least the pervert becomes a sensitive , self - contained , but rather readerly text ; as Foucault sees it in the first volume of The History of Sexuality , his sexuality is " written immodestly on his face and body because it was ...