Riot (14 page)

Resumption of the draft

Two girls, the models for Claire (standing) and Priscilla (seated)

   
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Myers, Walter Dean.
Riot / Walter Dean Myers.
p. cm.
Written in screenplay format.
Summary: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish
mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish
immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against
blacks and wealthy “swells” of New York City.
eISBN: 978-1-60684-196-9
1. Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863—Juvenile fiction. [1. Draft Riot, New
York, N.Y., 1863—Fiction. 2. Race relations—Fiction. 3. Racially mixed
people—Fiction. 4. Riots—Fiction. 5. African Americans—Fiction.
6. Irish Americans—Fiction. 7. New York (N.Y.)—History—Civil War,
1861–1865—Fiction. 8. Motion picture plays.] I. Title.
PZ7.M992Rjo 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2009014638

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