Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is pulled between two powerful visions of how to fight for justice. As his father’s steady commitment to nonviolence collides with his older brother’s growing involvement with the Black Panther Party, Sam must navigate loyalty, fear, and the moral weight of choosing a side. Through Sam’s coming-of-age journey, the novel explores the tensions within the civil rights movement, the search for identity, and what it means to protect family while confronting a changing world. Kekla Magoon’s vivid, emotionally grounded storytelling brings history to life with clarity and urgency, capturing how activism can both fracture and strengthen the bonds that hold a community together.
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paperback
Aladdin
Published Jan 1, 2009
290 pages
ISBN: 9781416975823
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon.