Kent State Contributor(s): Wiles, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1338356283 ISBN-13: 9781338356281 Publisher: Scholastic Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Young Adult Fiction | Novels In Verse - Young Adult Fiction | Politics & Government |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2019047100 |
Age Level: 12-18 |
Grade Level: 7-13 |
Lexile Measure: 640 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" L (0.60 lbs) 144 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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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