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	Magoon, Kekla. HOW IT WENT DOWN New York : Henry Holt, 2014 IL YA ISBN 0805098690
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	African American teen Tariq Johnson has been shot and killed by Jack Franklin, a white man, after exiting a convenience store. This is the only fact known for certain by the media and investigating officials. Community members, friends, family, eyewitnesses, and police all give their accounts of how it went down, each providing pieces of conflicting stories in this complex novel.  (Booktalk by the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Committee)
	SUBJECTS:     African Americans -- Fiction.                         Death -- Fiction.                         Race relations -- Fiction.                         Witnesses -- Fiction.

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