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The rating for this YA book so far is very high I think primarily because it is timely, ripped out of the daily news about racism and police brutality: Rashad, a (black) teen in a convenience store to buy a bag of chips, reaches into his backpack while in line just as a (white) woman accidentally bumps into him, and he falls to the floor. The owner, much besieged by petty theft, sees Rashad with his hand in his bag, yells to a (white) cop in the store that the kid is shoplifting. The cop beats t...
Review originally posted on YA LoveTypically for an audio review I break up my post into two parts: the audio review followed by the book review. Today I’ve decided to break away from that. Rashad’s and Quinn’s stories prompted a number of questions to form as I listened to All American Boys, so I decided to list my questions instead of writing a formal review. I think the questions I kept asking myself speak volumes about the story and about our society. All of the questions I’m listing stem fr...
Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.A powerful social commentary, relevant and deeply moving. This book has the power to open eyes, to invoke empathy, to initiate essential conversations, to aid with understanding, to encourage change. Rich with authenticity and narrative voice, All American Boys is a must read.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ~Desmond TutuRashad and Quinn are the black and white all American boys centering this story of color coded policing and white privilege. The co-authors work through the issues we read about every week when stories about “living while black” reach the media. Taking us slowly through the boys’ perspectives, their lives and interests before “the incident”, and their awakenings afterwards to understand what ha...
Books save lives. And they change hearts and minds. This will be one of those books.
***(re)read for YA lit course***
I feel the same way I did after reading The Hate U Give - a powerful, well written story that can be appreciated by all. But if it’s not already, this should be required reading for middle and high school students. Looking forward to reading more by Jason Reynolds.
4.5 stars rounded up to 5. Such an important, beautifully written story.
I feel bad that I had to kinda rush through this (it was overdue at the library)––but I can tell you, this is a great and important book that deserves attention. All-American Boys is the story of Rashad, a black teen who is assaulted by a white cop, and Quinn, a white classmate of his who witnesses the crime (and who also happens to be friends with the cop). It's quite a painful story to read because it's all too familiar. It's impossible to even count the number of true stories about people of
If I had a million dollars I would buy cases of this book. Anytime that someone begins a discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality in the United States, or the current American experience of race I'd hand them a copy. This is the most timely and deftly handled book (directed at teens), on the issues of the black and white American racial divide. The frightening thing is that it is set in current time."People had told me that racism was a thing of the past, they'd told me no...
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ #RashadIsAbsentAgainToday I’m going to be perfectly honest here and say All American Boys is not the most well-written book you’ll ever find. However, it might be one of the most important and I encourage any parent of a middle-grader to force them to encourage them to read it. I generally try to keep my non-book opinions off of Goodreads, but . . . . I’m telling you right now, if you are a Trump supporter person who already kno...
Phew. This is a difficult one to rate, equally difficult to review. I wanted to give it one star and three stars and five stars simultaneously. I can't quite work out my own response. Part of the problem is that All American Boys is preaching to the choir for me. This book did little to further my understanding of race relations or police power in the US. Then again, I've closely followed the stories of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, etc. etc. etc. I'd be curious to know the reaction o...
I am not the same person that I was when I started this book. Thank you Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, for reminding me why I read and the propensity with which books can change us, make us alter our lenses we use to view the world and our privilege, and touch our souls.
Rashad is a pretty typical 17-year-old kid, going to high school, partying with his friends, working on the sketches he hopes to make a living at one day, and participating in ROTC because his dad makes him. But Rashad is also black -- and when a woman trips over him in a convenience store, a white cop jumps to conclusions about what Rashad was doing and beats him up, brutally enough to break ribs and put him in the hospital for a week. Quinn, a white kid at the same school, misses what triggere...
