TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiles,Deborah
TI  - Kent State
T2  - Thorndike press large print striving reader collection
SN  - 9781432890469
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - College students
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
KW  - College stories
KW  - Kent (Ohio)
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - "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"--
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