Dreamland Burning

Dreamland BurningA compelling dual narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen year old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter

A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations.

Some bodies won't stay buried.

Some stories need to be told.

When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past.

Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns.

Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 02/20/2018
ISBN: 9780316384902
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 189089 / Dreamland Burning
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 13