The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)

The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)

USD $18.99 Wade Hudson [Writer] Published by-Random House

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About the The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)

A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside down when his grandfather is slain in a senseless and racist act of violence. From the author of the award-winning memoir, Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South and co-editor of Recognize! An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life.

Lamar can’t wait to start his filmmaking career like his idol Spike Lee.  And leave behind his small town of Morton, Louisiana. But for now, Lamar has to learn how to be a filmmaker while getting to know his grandfather. 

When Gramps talks about his activism and Black history, Lamar doesn’t think much about it. Times have changed since the old Civil Rights days! Right? He has a white friend named Jeff who wants to be a filmmaker, too, even though Jeff’s parents never let him go to Lamar’s Black neighborhood. But there’s been progress in town. Right?

Then Gramps is killed in a traffic altercation with a white man claiming self-defense. But the Black community knows better: Gramps is another victim of racial violence. Protesters demand justice. So does Lamar. But he is also determined to keep his grandfather's legacy alive in the only way he knows how: recording a documentary about the fight against injustice. 

From the critically acclaimed author and the publisher of Just Us Books, Wade Hudson comes a riveting, timely, and deeply moving story about a young Black filmmaker whose eyes are opened to racial injustice and becomes inspired to follow in his grandfather's activist footsteps.

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The price of "The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)" at Current Comics Monterey is USD $18.99.

The publisher of "The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)" is Random House.

The genres of "The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)" are Juvenile Fiction - Diversity & Multicultural, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American & Black, and Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism.

"The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "The Reckoning (Hardcover Book)" is Wade Hudson.