When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past.
Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow laws, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns.
- 2019-2020 Virginia Readers Choice High School Nominee
Fiction
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Thorpe by Mary Dutton
- Paperboy by Vince Vawter
- With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln and Christopher Colliers
- Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
- The River Between Us by Richard Peck
- Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
- Riot! by Walter Dean Myers
- Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden
Nonfiction
- A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield (305.896/Har)
- Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice by Lawrence Goldstone (976.3/Gol)
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (940.54/She)