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