Dreamland Burning
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · Paperback · February 20, 2018
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations.
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- Genres
- 20th-Century US YA, YA Mysteries, Prejudice & Racism for Teens
- Published
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, February 20, 2018
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A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past.
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Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
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- category-crossing YA
- book-club-ready tension
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- serious, readable treatment
- signals of historical-issue fiction
Where it sits
| Prejudice & Racism for Teens | 70% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century US YA | 63% |
| YA Mysteries | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century US YA
- YA Mysteries
- Prejudice & Racism for Teens
- Authors
- Jennifer Latham
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- February 20, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century US YA