Out of Darkness
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4.7 • 47 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honoree
"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.
Customer Reviews
Library quality
This book is showing up on Texas banned book lists.
“Out of Darkness” is very well written, well researched, and a chronicle of East Texas/Texas history in the 1930´s.
It should be available in all of our school and public libraries. Book banning is unacceptable.
Powerful , meaningful book
I think EVERYONE should read this! What a picture of the way things were—and still are in our country!
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This book, although sometimes a little hard to read, was simply amazing. I couldn't put it down! The characters are easy to sympathize with, and by the end of the book I couldn't stop crying. 10/10 would recommend to anybody interested in love, destruction, segregation, or just anyone who needs a good book.