Kent State /
Wiles, Deborah,
Kent State / by Deborah Wiles. - Large print edition. - 181 pages ; 22 cm. - Thorndike press large print striving reader collection .
"From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protesters roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protester, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply"--
9781432890469 1432890468
2021022924
College students--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Fiction.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970--Fiction.
College stories.
Kent (Ohio)--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.
Kent State / by Deborah Wiles. - Large print edition. - 181 pages ; 22 cm. - Thorndike press large print striving reader collection .
"From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protesters roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protester, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply"--
9781432890469 1432890468
2021022924
College students--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Fiction.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970--Fiction.
College stories.
Kent (Ohio)--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.