All American boys /
Reynolds, Jason,
All American boys / Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?
15-18 years old.
9780571366750 (paperback) 0571366759 (paperback)
Race relations--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Police brutality--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
All American boys / Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?
15-18 years old.
9780571366750 (paperback) 0571366759 (paperback)
Race relations--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Police brutality--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.