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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
This was an option for MHS summer reading, a great book for engaging dialogue with kids.
This was a really good story! It was a thoughtful fictional account about police brutality. I was moved to read this book because our local middle school chose to assign this as 8th grade reading material and a few parents and the local fraternal order of police complained that it was slanted too negatively towards the police. I disagree with that stance and thought the book covered the police incident from all sides possible. I have no problem at all letting my 8th grader read this book!
This book is remarkable. I read it for my library’s banned books club and the fact that it is in the Top 10 of banned/challenged books for 2021 astounds me. I kept thinking, challenging this book would be like challenging the daily news.
Wow.
This is a powerful story, nuanced in its telling, and very relevant for today's teenagers and adults about police brutality. Told from both a black American and a European American boy, this book is really poignant, calling everybody to act. Since I am also European-American, Quinn's story was a powerful call for European-Americans to stop being complicit in America's system of oppression of black and brown bodies. However, I really loved Rashad's character as well.
I wasn't really a fan of all the swearing, but I get that the authors are trying to be realistic to the experiences and general language of adolescents. It was too much for me though.
All in all, I would highly recommend.
This is a powerful story, nuanced in its telling, and very relevant for today's teenagers and adults about police brutality. Told from both a black American and a European American boy, this book is really poignant, calling everybody to act. Since I am also European-American, Quinn's story was a powerful call for European-Americans to stop being complicit in America's system of oppression of black and brown bodies. However, I really loved Rashad's character as well.
I wasn't really a fan of all the swearing, but I get that the authors are trying to be realistic to the experiences and general language of adolescents. It was too much for me though.
All in all, I would highly recommend.
Wow. Great book, narrating the current American experience of race through the voice of two teens - one African American, one white. Accessible, compelling, sympathetic, searing.
Love this book for the boy's voices. I was hoping for more of a climax/conclusion, but perhaps the mirrors life more as it usually is.
The audio version was fabulous!
The audio version was fabulous!
Fun to read. Told from two sides of the story. Healing and full of love and insight. I want to meet the two main characters. I want to meet Jill. I want to meet Paul. Full, rich characters. Compelling story. Gripping at times. Wonderful.