num_pages: 208
description: Fifteen-year old Kevin Graham thinks his world is nearly wrapped up in priorities; finish a project for his Eagle Scout award, convince his family that he doesn't want to join the ministry, graduate from high school and attend Howard University. Then everything begins to unravel... Black churches throughout the U.S. are being torched. The devastating fires are getting closer and closer to some in Bedford, Georgia, and the Graham family's beloved Bethlehem Baptist Church, where his father is the pastor and his grandfather the bishop. After suspicious characters suddenly show up in Bedford, a nearby church goes up in flames, Kevin swings into action to protect his church, only to learn that two people he respect and admires may be involved in arson. Can Kevin and a handful of friends protect their church from becoming the arsonists' next target?
language: English
title: After the Ashes
titlecomplete: After the Ashes
publisher: Brookfield Reader