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Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Hardcover - 2023

by Slater, Dashka

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2023. Hardcover.
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Details

  • Title Accountable: The True Story of a Racist
  • Author Slater, Dashka
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
  • Date 2023
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780374314347
  • ISBN 9780374314347 / 0374314349
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.83 x 1.54 in (21.59 x 14.81 x 3.91 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 13
  • Reading level 1000
  • Library of Congress subjects Educational accountability - California, Discrimination in education - California
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022043063
  • Dewey Decimal Code 371.829

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2023, Page 55
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 07/01/2023, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2023, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/03/2023, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2023, Page 127
  • Shelf Awareness, 11/21/2023, Page 0

About the author

Award-winning journalist Dashka Slater has written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Salon, and Mother Jones. Her New York Times-bestselling young-adult true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an LA Times Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year's best books, including ones compiled by The Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and School Library Journal. In 2021, The 57 Bus was named to TIME magazine's list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University's MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.