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 * __//Riot// by: Walter D. Myers ﻿ __**



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= This book is called Riot by Walter Dean Myers. Riot is a historical-fiction book. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent Irish immigrant. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down; and African Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police can't hold out against the rioters, and finally, soldiers are ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put a stop to this, which they do–brutally. Fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of a black father and Irish mother, finds herself stuck in between the two races. Faced with the breakdown of the city–the home–she has loved, Claire must discover the strength and to address the new world in which she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and her identity. = === == 

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 * II.** **__"About the author"__**==

== ﻿His mother died when he was only two and a half years old. He has no memory of her, since he was so young. He was raised in a foster home by the Dean family, so he took their last name as part of his name. The Dean family took him to Harlem, where he grew to be an avid reader. Myers understood that his foster family would not be able to send him to college, so he dropped out of Stuyvesant high school and joined the army instead. This experience helped inform the writing of 1989's Fallen Angels, one of his most talked about books. Myers is a two-time Newbery Honor award winner for: //Scorpions// and //Somewhere in the Darkness//. He is a five-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for: //The Young Landlords//, //Motown and Didi: A Love Story//, //Fallen Angels//, //Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom//, and //Slam!//. Myers is also a two-time National Book Award Finalist for: //Monster// and //Autobiography of My Dead Brother//. //Monster// was the first-ever recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. ==

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