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Long division : a novel / Kiese Laymon.

Laymon, Kiese, (author.).

Summary:
Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982177362
  • ISBN: 1982177365
  • ISBN: 9781982174828
  • ISBN: 198217482X
  • Physical Description: 153, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Book one and Book two issued back-to-back and inverted (tête- bêche format).
Subject: African American teenage boys > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Exeter Community Library LAY (Text) 33249024785739 Fiction Available -
Pocono Mountain Public Library F Lay (Text) 35540000061124 PMPL 2nd Floor Fiction Available -

Summary: Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan.

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