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Kent State

Kent State

by Deborah Wiles
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/04/2020
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From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.

May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.
ISBN:
9781338356281
9781338356281
Category:
Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
21-04-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scholastic, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
216.41x145.52x16.36mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including two National Book Award finalists-Each Little Bird that Sings and Revolution. Her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship.

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