Riot /
Walter Dean Myers.
- New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
- 164 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Written in screenplay format.
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
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