A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019
Carter went to work in the coal mines
But how can Genesis believe anything her teacher says when her dad tells her the exact opposite
like who invented the Super Soaker
Eleven-year-old Mor was used to hearing his father’s voice
Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Death and Dying A Kirkus Reviews Best MiddleIn 1921 Tulsas Greenwood District, known then as the nations Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps as many as three hundred people were dead. Tulsa, 1921