Watch us rise
Watch us riseRenée Watson
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Watch us rise (2019)

Renée Watson

Others: Positive

Jasmine and Chelsea are sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post everything online—poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial macroaggressions she experiences—and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by online trolls. When things escalate, the principal shuts the club down. Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices—and those of other young women—to be heard.

ISBN:
9781526600875
Length:
368 pages

Genres: young adult, poetry

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