Riot
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Written in screenplay format.
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.
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Pretty Good submitted by janaejwhite on June 16, 2012, 10:12am I was reluctant to read this book because it is written like a script of a play, but when I read it, it was pretty good! If you like a short, easy to read, historical fiction novel, this is the book for you.
PUBLISHED
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 164 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781606840009 (hardcover)
1606840002 (hardcover)
9781606840429 (lib. bdg.)
1606840428 (lib. bdg.)
SUBJECTS
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.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.