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Latham, Jennifer.
DREAMLAND BURNING
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2017
IL YA
ISBN 978-0316384933

(2 booktalks)
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Booktalk #1

When Rowen finds a body under the floor in her family’s shed, she is determined to find out who the body belongs to and their connection to the house she now lives in. And so begins her foray into the history of her family and her city. When confronted with racism in the past and the present, she must find a way to give a voice to those who are discriminated against and to fight for a future where racism doesn’t exist. 1921 – William lives with an abusive stepfather who owns a Victrola store in Tulsa. While segregation is legal, William begins to question how and why African Americans are treated differently. With racial tensions rising in the city, events escalate to a harrowing night of riots and violence in the city. Told in alternating narration, Dreamland Burning is a fast-paced suspense thriller that connects past racism to current racial tensions. (Prepared by: Mike LeRoy, Indian Land High School, Michael.LeRoy@lcsdmail.net
for South Carolina Book Award)

Booktalk #2

Biracial Rowan Chase discovers a skeleton on her wealthy family’s property in contemporary Tulsa, Oklahoma. As she digs further into the history of this unknown person, she begins to learn much about the past, the present, and her own family’s history. Will Tillman, living one hundred years earlier, is caught in the bitter reality of a city divided by cruel racism, some of which he finds himself directly responsible for. Told in alternating chapters by the two seventeen-year-olds, this is a fascinating mystery that reveals some of the little known history of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 and the painful enduring legacy we still deal with today. This historical fiction is well told, heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful. (Colorado Blue Spruce Award,  Booktalk by Tana Lucero.)



SUBJECTS:    Murder -- Fiction.
                        African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Race relations -- Fiction.
                        Riots -- Fiction.
                        Tulsa (Okla.) -- Race relations -- Fiction.
                        Riots -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

 
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