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Kent State / Deborah Wiles.
Imagine: You are a student in America. You are protesting a war. Or maybe you are just walking to class. The National Guard is called onto your campus. Imagine you are a young guardsman. The protest grows stronger. So does the confusion, the chaos, the fear. The guardsmen open fire. Imagine this is your school. Imagine this is your town. Imagine this is your town. Imagine this is your country. Imagine American troops firing on American students. Imagine the four students who died. No. Remember the four students who died. Because all of this happened. On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, all of this happened. Now we need to talk about it. Because if we don't talk about it, it will happen again. Deborah Wiles's Kent State is an astonishing reckoning with the events of May 4, 1970, told in many voices at many angles, to better reach the very human truth of what occurred and to show that underneath every tragedy, we must find a call to action.
Record details
- ISBN: 1338356283
- ISBN: 9781338356281
- Physical Description: xi, 132 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes a note by the author describing the sources for this story. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 15-17. Scholastic Press. Grades 10-12. Scholastic Press. HL640L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 91 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 2 508829. |
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| Genre: | Campus fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | YA WIL 2020 (Text) | 0002205640879 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent State
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Summary
Kent State
From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.
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