ThrillerLiterary
Track this book
You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
About
"It was the end of summer, a summer during a two-year nightmare. African American children around Atlanta were vanishing, and twenty-nine would be murdered by the end of 1981. Like all kids across the city, fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison were discovering that back-to-school now meant special safety lessons, indoor recess, and being thrown into a world their parents couldn't comprehend, one in which the everyday challenges of growing up were coupled with constant fear - and the news of the murders of one's peers.". "Tasha can't understand why she daily…
More by Tayari Jones
All books
More like this
Reviews
Rating integrity
HealthyCounted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.
Editions
6 editions · 2 languages- Audiobook · English · 2003Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664435384
- Other · English · 2023Grand Central Publishing · 9781538742105
- Other · English · 2009Grand Central Publishing · 9780446559652
- Other · English · 2003Grand Central Publishing · 272 pages · 9780446690898
- Other · English · 2002Warner Books · 255 pages · 9780446528306
- Paperback · Spanish · 2006Leaving Atlanta (Perfidos E Iluminadas)Cobre · 296 pages · 9788496501010
Serial murdersAfrican American familiesBildungsromansAfrican American childrenFictionDomestic fictionFiction, suspenseAfrican americans, fiction