Title: Fire in the streets
Description: In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Subjects: Black Panther Party, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Racism, Fiction, United States, Civil rights movements, Historical fiction, Siblings, African Americans, Civil rights, History, 1000blackgirlbooks, Civil rights movements, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, African americans, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.), United States, Illinois, Chicago
Time periods: 20th century