Rising from the Ashes : Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire illustrator-Charlie Eve Ryan Jones in the adorable chapter

Jones in the adorable chapter book series following Mindy Kim

and Death Valley

Ever wake up in the middle of the night to awful nightmares about vampires

knowing she’s the key to the Vangarde’s plan to overthrow the corrupt Regime

Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power

Rising from the Ashes : Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire illustrator-Charlie Eve Ryan Jones in the adorable chapterIn the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion dollars in damage. In neighborhoods abandoned by the police, protestors and storeowners exchanged gunfire. More than 12,000 people were arrested and 2,400 injured. Sixty three died. In Rising from the Ashes,