Angel of Greenwood

Resource Information

The work Angel of Greenwood represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Angel of Greenwood

Statement of responsibility

Randi Pink

Creator

• Pink, Randi

Contributor

• Deas, Rich, 1969-

Author

• Pink, Randi

Illustrator

• Deas, Rich, 1969-

Subject

• African American teenagers
• African American teenagers -- Fiction
• African American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Violence against
• African Americans -- Violence against -- Oklahoma | Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Violence against -- Oklahoma | Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Fiction
• Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• Interpersonal relations
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Novels
• Novels
• Oklahoma
• Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction
• Oklahoma -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
• Oklahoma -- Tulsa
• Prejudices
• Prejudices -- Fiction
• Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
• Press coverage
• Préjugés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
• Race relations
• Racism -- Fiction
• Racism -- Fiction
• Racism -- Juvenile fiction
• Racism against Black people
• Racism against Black people -- Juvenile fiction
• Tulsa (Okla.) -- Juvenile fiction
• Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Fiction
• Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Juvenile fiction
• Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Press coverage -- Oklahoma | Tulsa -- Fiction
• Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Press coverage -- Oklahoma | Tulsa -- Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• 1900-1999
• Young adult works
• Young adult fiction
• Adolescents noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Novels
• Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• Fiction
• History
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
• "Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place as equals. Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil. Also, as a loyal follower of Booker T. Washington, she believes, through education and tolerance, that black people should rise slowly and without forced conflict. Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

770L

Intended audience source

lexile

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent