Out of Darkness
Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe & Benita Robledo
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grade 9 & Up
Ages: 14 and up
Release Date: April 26, 2016
12 Hours and 32 Minutes
Play Clip: Embed
List Price: $65
ISBN: 9780735289475
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism, Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American
"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?"
New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. 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.
New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. 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.