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192 pages, Hardcover
First published August 28, 2018
You know how, in the middle of the yard, there's that huge flagpole? Ashton said. And up at the very top, there's the flag?
...On the first day I got here, I stared up at that flag thinking, this is happening all over America. All over America, kids were walking into school yards and classrooms, and the American flag was waving. All over America, kids were saying the Pledge of Allegiance, saying 'indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' All over America, we had memorized this, but did anybody know what it meant?
...It gave us a sameness. I stood in the school yard looking up at that flag and I felt something. Not just like a new kid. Not just like a white kid, but like I was a... a part of everybody running and jumping and playing all over America. Not just in our school yard. I mean- everywhere.Quote from an uncorrected galley provided by Goodreads Giveaways