![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the consequences can be explosive.Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. SYNOPSIS: "This is East Texas, and there's lines. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year This is East Texas, and there’s lines. Review Source: De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for ChildrenĪlso by this author: The Knife and the Butterfly A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. ![]() Published by Lerner Publishing Group on 2015 Naomi and her twin siblings Beto and Cari are new to town, having recently been relocated from their San Antonio barrio to an oil-mining town by the twins’ father (and Naomi’s stepfather), Henry (their mother is dead). Ultimately, this powerful novel asks: What are we willing to sacrifice for friendship and love? For defying an unjust society? For working to bring about racial justice? Out of the Darkness is highly recommended. We leave this heart-wrenching and gruesome scene to jump back to September 1936. ![]()
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