Seventeen-year-old Noah Jackson needs to make some quick cash to provide for his baby girl. He joins his friends Asa and Bonds one night as they leave their predominantly black neighborhood for a nearly all-white neighborhood, looking for a Lexus to steal. Inexperienced thieves, the boys soon abandon their plan, only to be confronted by some local teens. Asa and Bonds escape, but Noah is viciously beaten and mocked with racial epithets. As Noah seeks legal recourse, the racism that infects his everyday life threatens to provoke him to violence.
These exciting, age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction titles will appeal to even the most reluctant high-school readers. With that kind of appeal, the 14 books in this category will rarely sit on the shelf.
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes,Violence: General
Crime: Stalking,Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Contact Between Adult and Minor,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse,Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape