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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Social Issues / Magoon, Kekla
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and killed Shea Tatum, an unarmed thirteen-year-old black girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival of white supremacist counter demonstrators. -- adapted from jacket

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Definitely Recommend submitted by Sa05k on August 28, 2020, 5:11pm This book is about girl, aged 13, who was shot by police and how it effects her community and the whole world. I would recommend this because it is about an issue the US is facing today which is police brutality. I like that this book offers different perspectives from the Police officer to the young girls friends to a news reporter. I would also recommend reading How It Went Down, which is a book by the same author. Other books that offer a black youth perspective are Black Enough, Long Way Down, and Piecing Me Together.