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Morris, Brittney. SLAY New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. IL YA ISBN 9781534445420 3 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Welcome to the world of SLAY. Kiera Johnson is the creator and game developer of a worldwide Black Panther-style virtual reality game called SLAY. Black gamers duel in a secret multiplayer Nubian online role-playing game. Kiera is a seventeen-year-old math tutor and honor student at Jefferson Academy where there are very few black students. Kiera’s gaming persona is a secret; not even her sister or boyfriend knows. When a Kansas City teen is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, her secret identity is threatened. A gamer troll accesses her game and threatens to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination." Unless she agrees to a winner-takes-all battle, Kiera’s worlds are about to collide. (Florida Teen Reads nominees 2021) Booktalk #2 Kiera leads a double life. At school she maintains her star student status, deflects microaggressions served up by her mostly white peers, and plans a future with her boyfriend, Malcolm. No one knows that people-pleasing Kiera is also Emerald, hero of the massive allBlack online game, SLAY. Oh, and she’s also its creator. Meant to be a safe space for Black gamers across the world to play and celebrate Black excellence and joy, it’s a game cherished by *Also recommended for grades 7 and 8 thousands of secret online fans. When a player is killed in real life and a troll infiltrates the world of SLAY, will Kiera give up her creation, or will she fight for SLAY and its players? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2021-2022) Booktalk #3 Virtual reality gaming and Seattle go hand in hand, and Kiera Johnson, one of the only African American students in a mostly white elite private high school is fine with that. All Kiera wants to do is develop her virtual reality game Slay and stay under the radar so she can keep her identity a secret. She created this game as a safe place for students of color to meet, learn, and grow as gamers and as people. But when a national tragedy involving Slay explodes on the news she has to face the most relentless adversary of all; racism. A racist troll infiltrates the game and she has to make a choice; expose herself as the creator of Slay or allow the game to be destroyed forever. To make matters worse her African American boyfriend disapproves of video games so her relationship is also on the line. Local Seattle author Brittney Morris makes her debut in this stunning first novel, a great choice for fans of Ready Player One or Warcross. (Kathleen Story, Eastlake High School for Evergreen Book Award) |
| SUBJECTS: Schools -- Juvenile fiction. Video games -- Fiction. Fantasy games -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Role playing -- Fiction. Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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