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All American Boys A Novel / Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
A bag of chips. That'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 Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, 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 concrete pavement?But there were witnesses: Quinn Collins-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 savior 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781481463331
- ISBN: 1481463330
- Physical Description: 316 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. "A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book." |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12 and up. 12-19. 7-12. HL770L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader 4.9 Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 10 176653. |
Awards Note: | Coretta Scott King Honor 2016 |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. |