Kent State / Deborah Wiles.
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SoundPublisher: [Jefferson City, MO] : Scholastic Audiobooks, [2020]Copyright date: ℗2020Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 2 audio discs (1 hr., 59 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781338636345
- 1338636340
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Northport Library | Audiobook | TEEN WILES, DEBORAH | Available | 33111009897725 |
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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 protestors 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 -- protestor, 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.
Read by Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina DeLaine, Johnny Heller, Roger Wayne, Korey Jackson, and David de Vries.
Compact discs.
Ages 12-17.
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 narrative gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio. An event that, even fifty years later, still resonates deeply.