About this book
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
- Black Panther Party
- Brothers and sisters
- Juvenile fiction
- Racism
- Fiction
- United States
- Civil rights movements
- Historical fiction
