Riot, Walter Dean Myers
Type
Label
Riot, Walter Dean Myers
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
NP, Lexile
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 12 up
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Riot
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
669070875
Responsibility statement
Walter Dean Myers
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning, MG, 4.6, 3.Accelerated Reader AR, MG+, 4.6, 3.0, 134436.
Summary
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Subject
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Young adult fiction
- Riots -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Race relations -- Fiction
Content
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Outgoing Resources
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- Subject15
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Young adult fiction
- Riots -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1