A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Cover:Hardcover this is National Book Award

this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother

If they can get to Denver International Airport

with a loaded gun

She's a terrific athlete

How can God allow an evil like slavery to exist

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Cover:Hardcover this is National Book AwardThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An