02244cam a2200397 i 4500 1164847044 TxAuBib 20201123120000.0 191010s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019035025 9781534462724 hardcover 1534462724 hardcover (OCoLC)1123182400 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX TOH ILC OCLCO CLE OCLCO FO7 LE@ TCH IH9 YDX OCLCF UOK TxAuBib rda Hammonds Reed, Christina, author. The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed. First edition. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2020] 362 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Los Angeles, 1992. It's the end of senior year and Ashley Bennett and her friends are spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. When four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death, violent protests engulf LA and the city burns. Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal; her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. The model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents built starts to crumble. Her friends are spreading a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson. Ashley is left to question who is the us? And who is the them? -- adapted from jacket. Ages 14 up. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 20201123. High school students Fiction. Race relations Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 Fiction. Family life California Los Angeles Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) History 20th century Fiction. Young adult fiction. TXKIP