Dreamland burning / Jennifer Latham.
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 past ... and the present.
Record details
- ISBN: 0316384909
- ISBN: 9780316384902
- Physical Description: 371 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Little, Brown and Company in February 2017"--Title page verso. Includes discussion guide. |
Target Audience Note: | 890L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 13 189089. |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Summary
Dreamland Burning
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.