Dreamland Burning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316384933)

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.

Author: Jennifer Latham
ISBN-10: 0316384933
ISBN-13: 9780316384933
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2017
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 189089 / Dreamland Burning


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/2016 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2016 pg. 92
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2016 pg. 78
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2016
Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 49
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2016
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2017 - Recommended - Better Than Most
BookPage 03/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 02/21/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/19/2017