Riot /

Myers, Walter Dean

Riot / by Walter Dean Myers - New York : Scholastic ; 2009. - 164 pages : illustrations , map ; 20 cm .

V


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.

850
Lexile estimate
V
Raz-Plus


9780545264150


race relations--Fiction
young adult--Fiction

PZ7.M992

813