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Ramee Lisa Moore
Ramee Lisa Moore - A Good Kind Of Trouble - Paperback
Ramee Lisa Moore - A Good Kind Of Trouble - Paperback
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Description: From debut author Lisa Moore Ram e comes this funny and big - hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship family and standing up for what's right perfect for fans of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and the novels of Ren e Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve - year - old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh and she d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact learn to run track and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait what? Shay's sister Hana is involved in Black Lives Matter but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest though Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing) but if she doesn't face her fear she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble for real." Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly " An Anti - Racist Children's and Y a Reading List")
Title: A Good Kind Of Trouble
Author(s): Ramee Lisa Moore
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062836694
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 6/16/2020
Category: School Stories (Children's / Teenage)
Description: From debut author Lisa Moore Ram e comes this funny and big - hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship family and standing up for what's right perfect for fans of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and the novels of Ren e Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve - year - old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh and she d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact learn to run track and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait what? Shay's sister Hana is involved in Black Lives Matter but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest though Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing) but if she doesn't face her fear she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble for real." Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly " An Anti - Racist Children's and Y a Reading List")
Title: A Good Kind Of Trouble
Author(s): Ramee Lisa Moore
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062836694
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 6/16/2020
Category: School Stories (Children's / Teenage)