Atheneum
October 2015
On Sale: September 29, 2015
Featuring: Quinn Collins; Rashad; Paul Galluzzo
320 pages ISBN: 1481463330 EAN: 9781481463331 Kindle: B00YNIIR3C Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In an unforgettable new novel from award-winning authors
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, two teens—one black, one
white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act
that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately,
the country bitterly divided by racial tension.
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.
Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this
tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad
and Quinn as the complications from that single violent
moment, the type taken from the headlines, unfold and
reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
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