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Record 20 of 86

Author

Title Riot / Walter Dean Myers.

Imprint

New York : Egmont USA, 2009.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PCMS Historical Fiction	F MYERS	---	Available

Description	164 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note	Written in screenplay format.
Indexed In:	ALA Booklist
	Kirkus Reviews
	Publishers Weekly
	School Library Journal
Summary	In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Audience	4.6 Perma-Bound Books.
	5-9 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR 4.6 3.0 134436.
Subject	Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Juvenile fiction.
	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.
	Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Fiction.
	Race relations -- Fiction.
	Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
	Riots -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Irish Americans -- Fiction.
	Screenplays.
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1861-1865, Civil War -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
ISBN	1606840002 : $18.01