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1) Southland
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Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles.
—Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature
—Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award
—Nominated for an Edgar Award
The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Historical Fiction for Middle Grades (SCPL-YS)
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
Historical Fiction for Middle Grades (SCPL-YS)
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
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In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
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Its August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is...
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Arrested in the 1965 Watts riots, Richard Kelly (Cedric Sanders) must serve probation at an all-white seminary. Although encouraged to break racial boundaries by its president Alan Beckett (William Devane), the school wants black followers, not leaders. Even former missionary Kate Allison (Lauren Holly) initially rejects Richard. With a prison sentence looming, Richard meets Samuel Benton (Louis Gossett, Jr.)- "the gardener in the basement." ...
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A cluster of neighborhoods lies in the heart of Southern California, streets that form a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. Nearly a quarter of its young men will end up in prison. Many other will end up dead. These neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of the most infamous African-American gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. On these mean streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle...
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