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Riot [electronic resource] / Walter Dean Myers.

Summary:

In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781606841969 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1606841963 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Egmont USA, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Written in screenplay format.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 up.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.6 3.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 > Juvenile fiction.
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
Riots > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General
African American
Prejudice & Racism
Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Children's stories.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Electronic books.

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