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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Egmont USA
Publication date September 22, 2009
Pages 164
Binding Library
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9781606840429
ISBN-10 1606840428
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.65 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $19.99
Other format details juvenile
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Civil War is raging and in a desperate effort to find more recruits, the Union begins a draft - a draft with a difference. The wealthy can pay $300 to be released from their obligation, but the poor must go and fight and die. In New York City, the recently arrived Irish are the hardest hit by the draft and during the long hot days of July the city explodes in a rash of arson, marches, attacks, and lynchings, with the immigrant Irish taking out their anger on the black inhabitants of the city.
Fourteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, has never had to choose between the two sides of the family - she has never had reason to consider her own identity. When she learns that a friend of hers is in danger, she decides to go to her aid, but by venturing out on the streets, she puts her own life at risk.  
    
Myers's use of the screenplay format allows his readers a birds-eye view of the four hot days in July when New York City burned, using multiple points of view from both sides of the conflict.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9781606840009
 
from Egmont USA (September 22, 2009)
9781606840009 | details & prices | 164 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.99
Paperback
Book cover for 9781606842096
 
Reprint edition from Egmont USA (April 26, 2011)
9781606842096 | details & prices | 164 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $9.99
This edition also contains Riot, Riot
Library
Book cover for 9781606840429
 
The price comparison is for this edition
from Egmont USA (September 22, 2009)
9781606840429 | details & prices | 164 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.65 lbs | List price $19.99
About: The Civil War is raging and in a desperate effort to find more recruits, the Union begins a draft - a draft with a difference.

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