August, 10 2023 | 6:00 pm

134 Park Central Square, Suite 120 Springfield, Missouri 65807
https://www.itsalldowntown.com/bookclub/

FREE

Welcome to your new favorite book club! Join the Downtown Springfield Association and the Springfield-Greene County Library District every second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. for the Downtown Book Club.

August’s selection is The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed. Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer. Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.