Riot
By: Walter Dean Myers.
Publisher: Egmont USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606840009; 9781606840429
Subjects: Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Juvenile fiction; Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Riots -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Irish Americans -- Fiction; Motion picture plays; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Notes: Written in screenplay format.