Results for “violence”

Young adult

Jason Reynolds

National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds's fiercely stunning novel takes place in sixty potent seconds, the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

Young adult

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.

Young adult

L. R. Giles

"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--Provided by the publisher. Nick Pearson is hiding in plain sight but needs to choose between solving Eli's murder with Eli's hot sister, Reya, and "staying low-key" like the Program said to do. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.