Includes a fascinating author's note detailing the process of research and writing about voices that have largely been excluded from historical accounts. Can their love survive both prejudice and tragedy? Race, romance, and family converge in this riveting novel that transplants Romeo and Juliet to a bitterly segregated Texas town. Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone.
A Printz Honor Book This is East Texas, and there's lines. Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0Ī dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Historical WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions This book harnesses the power of discomfort we have talked so much about as a book club.Contributor(s): Pérez, Ashley Hope (Author) Assuming you’re of an advanced reading level and emotionally equipped for “Out of Darkness” you stand to learn a great deal from it. But - challenging subject matter, emotional writing, and gruesome events do not a banned book make. “Out of Darkness” is not an easy read or appropriate for every reader. But the blast is only one of the book’s horrors – and not the only one that stays with you after you close the cover. In 1937, a natural gas leak destroyed the entire Texas school – killing nearly 300 students and teachers. It’s also historical fiction – set against a real-life tragedy - the New London School explosion. And it examines the painful realities of objectifying women.
It’s an honest and brutal look at racism in the 1930s. "Out of Darkness" - today's feature for the #VelshiBannedBookClub - could be categorized in several ways.
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