Out of Darkness Cover:Hardcover But everything else

But everything else

Middle Grade

(Study is difficult but the rewards are great

being owned and ridden by a young boy

• 2004 New York Charlotte Award Master List long-listed

Out of Darkness Cover:Hardcover But everything elseOut of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937. Ashley Hope Perez has taken the explosion as her backdrop and imagined a diverse cast of characters whose broken lives are utterly captivating and tragically entangled with the school and the explosion. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a