Book 2018

Death Coming Up the Hill

2 readers

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018

Family problems
Social change
Fiction
Coming of age
Dating (Social customs)
Novels in verse
History
Children's fiction

Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.