wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/OutofDarknesscover.dbr:Tomás_Rivera_Mexican_American_Children's_Book_Award.dbr:Lake_Travis_Independent_School_District Out of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937.dbc:Novels_set_in_the_historical_United_States.dbr:Washington_County_School_District_(Utah).wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/OutofDarknesscover.jpg?width=300 South Carolina, Charleston 70 views, 5 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from St.Juan Castillo of NBC News wrote that Out of Darkness 'stares unflinchingly at racism, classism, segregation and the people who live on the margins of society.' (en) The novel chronicles a love affair between a teenage Mexican-American girl and a teenage African-American boy in 1930s New London, Texas, occurring right up to the 1937 New London School explosion.

Out of Darkness is a historical young adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published Septemby Carolrhoda Lab. Ashley Hope Prez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosionthe worst school disaster in American historyas a backdrop for a riveting novel about.

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