Kent State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781338356281)

From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.

May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.

Author: Deborah Wiles
ISBN-10: 1338356283
ISBN-13: 9781338356281
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 508829 / Kent State


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 87
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020 pg. 165
Publishers Weekly 03/16/2020
School Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 140
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2020 - Book Of Special Distinction
Shelf Awareness 05/05/2020
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2020 pg. 135
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2020 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style