Title: The Nickel Boys (Large Print)- --(WB) Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9798331701369
SKU: WB002213
Release Date: 45792
Genre: Historical Fiction -African American
Grade Level: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Language : English
Description : When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.