Kent State

Name: Kent State
Brand: Scholastic Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Deborah Wiles
ISBN: 9781338636352

Author: Deborah Wiles

Narrator: Deborah Wiles

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books

Published: 04/21/2020

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, United States, Novels In Verse, Politics & Government

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Ohio, sung live in 1971 by Neil Young, solo acoustic: [URL not allowed] Survivors from Kent State speak, 50 years later, in May, 2020: [URL not allowed] On May 4, 1970 (just about fifty years ago today!!! omg!!) I was a 17-year-old junior in a parochial (Chr......more

Goodreads review by Rama

Dissent & Death In this book, the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970 by the Ohio National Guard is narrated in a poetical form. This shooting during an antiwar demonstration resulted in the killing four students and wounding nine others. This historical event shook the conscious of people around the......more

Goodreads review by Claude's

CW: Shooting of protestors with some descriptions of victims Well I have to say that the author chose an incredible format to deliver this informative account of a tragic historical event. I didn't know anything about the Kent State protests so I found the introduction and notes at the end to be real......more

Goodreads review by Kim

I loved the concept— all of the voices tumbling over each other. But I found the strength to also be the weakness: all those tumbling voices accurately reflect the chaos of those few days in May, 1970, but make the whole narrative difficult to navigate, especially for teens who have limited backgrou......more