Kent State

Kent StateFrom 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.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 04/21/2020
ISBN: 9781338356281
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 87
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020 pg. 165
Publishers Weekly 03/16/2020
School Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 140
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2020 - Book Of Special Distinction