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Riot
Title:
Riot
Personal Author EPSB:
Walter Dean, Myers
Summary:
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Year Published:
2009
Physical Description:
164 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Note:
Written in screenplay format.
Subject:
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

Riots -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Irish Americans -- Fiction.

Motion picture plays.

Historical fiction.

Screenplays.
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9781606840009

9781606840429
Publisher:
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
Edmonton Public Schools