From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.
May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points — protestor, Guardsman, townie, student — Deborah Wiles’s Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.
Author: Deborah Wiles
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781338356281
Language: English
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