| Angel of Greenwood Contributor(s): Pink, Randi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250768470 ISBN-13: 9781250768476 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - African American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 770 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.85 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the "Black Wall Street," and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil. Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are. |