| International Standard Book Number |
9780316582872
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316582875
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| Personal Name |
Arnold, Marie, author.
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| Title Statement |
Split the sky / Marie Arnold.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
291 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In a town with growing racial tension, a young Black girl must use her powers of foresight to save an unarmed teen from being killed"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Fifteen-year-old Lala Russell is doing a bad job at being a Black girl. She has social justice fatigue, and she doesn't want to join the Black Alliance Club at her school (even though she agrees with them). A gifted cellist, she's focused on leaving her small town and accomplishing her goals and dreams. But Lala has also inherited another gift, her grandmother Sadie's gift of foresight. She has visions of the future--and they always come true. In Davey, the Texas sundown town she lives in, there is growing tension, as a black organization attempts to diversify the nearly all-white part of town. Amidst violent protests, Lala has a vision. In it, a Black teenage boy is shot in the chest by a white homeowner. Now Lala has a find the boy and save him. But Grandma Sadie has a vision too. After the boy's murder, a wave of protests breaks out. And the outrage over the casual and frequent slaying of unarmed Black children will result in unprecedented change. Change that won't happen if the vision is altered. Lala is faced with an existential question--can she allow herself to sacrifice one life to, in turn, save many? And if so, whose life will she choose?
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| Target Audience Note |
Ages 12 & up. Little, Brown and Company.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Texas Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Small cities Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social change Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ability Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ability Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Race relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Race relations Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Precognition Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Precognition Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racism against Black people Juvenile fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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