His protective mother calmly explains every part of the night's madness. The Korean woman, who had always seemed different and separate becomes a friend in the shelter during the smoky night. This book would be incredibly helpful for children who have shared the protagonist's experience. It is a meaningful book to talk about the violence that surrounds today's children. Unfortunately, I don't think its a book that will profoundly affect children over broad geographic areas or over time.
Young children are unlikely to be satisfied.
They are, in the end, impassioned and highly impressionable, eager to make sense of the world around them and pleased when what they perceiveas being good and right prevails. This is likely to seem a dubioustriumph to young listeners, who will be worrying that the book's victims havebeen left temporarily homeless, their neighborhood in ruins. The H.W. Wilson Company. All rights reserved. It's these very observations that lead Daniel to a truth about what caused the riot to begin with.