This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2009 by Kekla Magoon

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First Aladdin edition January 2009

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Magoon, Kekla.

The rock and the river / by Kekla Magoon.—1st Aladdin ed.
p. cm.

Summary: In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father’s nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

[1. Civil rights movements—Fiction. 2. Black Panther Party—Fiction.
3. Racism—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction. 5. African Americans—Fiction.
6. United States—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M2739Ro 2009 / 2008029170 / [Fic]—dc22

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5335-2
ISBN-10: 1-4391-5335-3

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