A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Childrenâ€™s Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Awardâ€“winning

All American Boys

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Childrenâ€™s Literature.

In this Coretta Scott King Honor Awardâ€“winning novel, two teensâ€”one black, one whiteâ€”grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

A bag of chips. Thatâ€™s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashadâ€™s pleadings that heâ€™s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashadâ€™s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashadâ€™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 concrete pavement?

There were witnesses: Quinn Collinsâ€”a varsity basketball player and Rashadâ€™s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistanâ€”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 savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball teamâ€”half of whom are Rashadâ€™s best friendsâ€”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.

Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviews tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken from the headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
Country USA
Brand Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781481463331
ReleaseDate 2015-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781481463331

Country	USA
Brand	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781481463331
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781481463331

All American Boys

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