Out of darkness
By: Ashley Hope Perez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781467742023
Subjects: Race relations; Mexican Americans; Schools; African Americans; Explosions; Fiction
Description: Out of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937.   Ashley Hope Perez has taken the explosion as her backdrop and imagined a diverse cast of characters whose broken lives are utterly captivating and tragically entangled with the school and the explosion. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. Author Biography.
Notes: 89Y Childrens Plus, Inc.