I like the language in this one as I think it'll appear to my junior high students. It was very informative and engaging

This is an excellent adaptation of the adult book by the same name. While the subject cannot, and should not, be sanitized for consumption it was written on a level that will help kids understand without overwhelming them. I hope it one day is on the shelves of every school library.

Written for a middle grade/YA audience, this title does a good job of introducing a missing piece of our history. Good choice for use in history curriculums.

This was a great book about the Tulsa Massacre. I didn't realize when I first started reading that the original book came out in the 1990's and it was rewritten as a YA version. At first I was a bit put off, but the information and writing were excellent and very comprehensive. The chapters were short, very readable, and extremely engaging. The narratives were gripping and I really couldn't put the book down until I found out what happened to each individual Madigan discusses. Great storytelling and well-cited.

This book does an impressively thorough job on educating youth (and adults) on a topic that was not widely known and was not mentioned in school during my childhood. This is an important topic we must do more to learn more about, and this book accomplishes just that.

The amount of notes I took while reading this was ridiculous. My kindle stopped letting me copy and paste. But there was just so much I wanted to highlight. I read this right after reading two other books about the tulsa race massacre, one a children’s book and the other being angel of Greenwood which is a factionalized account of what happened. This book was my favorite of the three. Incredibly deeply researched, while still being engaging and not feeling like a textbook. I want this book to be mandatory reading in schools.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book recounts the horrors of the Tulsa massacre. I can't believe that I had never heard of this part of our nation's shameful history until recently. This book is heartbreaking and powerful.

Review posted online:
THE BURNING by Tim Madigan has recently been released in a Young Readers' Edition, adapted by Hilary Beard. This non-fiction text explores "Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921;' it parallels Madigan's earlier work which was already in our collection. Every year, we have at least some students who research this historical event and its sickening aftermath; having this new edition, plus a chapter by chapter discussion guide is a big plus to further understanding. And, that guide (available through Title wave or at this link:
http://www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Burning-Discussion-Guide-2.pdf

refers to a nineteen-minute Ted Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, which we often watch with students:
embedded video available at https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg

THE BURNING includes background information and a chronological accounting of events from varied perspectives, plus an index, chapter notes, and an author's note from Madigan which refers to other incidents. There are also several pages of suggested resources on Black Wall Street, lynching and racial violence, Reconstruction, the Tulsa Race Massacre itself and over a dozen recommended books related to these topics. Profession reviewers like School Library Journal suggest that this newly adapted edition of THE BURNING could be used with students in grades 6 and up. It received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus.

This is very important coverage of a too-long-ignored topic in US history. Accessible, engaging, and deft in its coverage, I believe The Burning is necessary for most school libraries.

Fantastic. Honestly, this didn't feel like an adaption of anything, it felt like its own original work. It's riveting and terrible and really dives into the history of Greenwood the Tulsa Massacre and how it got to the tragedy that it did. I'm so saddened, but glad I know more. It's even good for people who read Stamped and are looking for more.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* Great younger readers book! very interesting, great introduction book to the Tulsa burning

When parents asked me to put together a nonfiction roundtable for middle schoolers, this book was on the top of my TBR pile. Serendipity.
We'll be reading this in the Fall for sure and I think that young readers who may never have heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre will get drawn in by the narrative tone of the text.

Editorial:
Do you ever start reading a book and have it be so good that you immediately stop because you know it’s going to hurt to have it end? That was very much this for me. It really only took me a couple of days, but I kept having to take breaks because the information was overwhelming and the story presented physically hurt to consume. The fact that I have lived in this country for almost three decades and had to learn about this event from a television show based on a comic book because my “American” history classes did not feel it necessary to share this important event from history with me is infuriating. I appreciated this adaptation of the original text and will probably buy both editions to teach from in the future.

Book:
Madigan and Beard do an excellent job laying out the importance and significance of Greenwood to Black people everywhere. Not just in Tulsa or Oklahoma, but that Greenwood had become the standard through out the US. I appreciated the detail with which the authors described the backgrounds of each of the individuals highlighted. How many of the Black men were war veterans and struggled with that acceptance once they returned back to America. How many of them had seen what was eventually done to their community done on foreign soil by occupying countries. How these men, women, and children did everything right and were still punished because of racism. There is a quote that says something like, “these people were told to pick themselves up by their boot straps and they did and were still punished for it.” That will stick with me for a long time. If I had a critique, I would suggest the end of the adaptation be reworked a little bit. I appreciated it being related to modern times, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the countless killings of people of color throughout the US. However, it doesn’t transitions smoothly like the rest of the book, so a simple rework would solve that. Finally, I appreciate the reporting of what is going on with the Greenwood commission and how lawsuits are being filed even just a few months ago.


I will be working this book into future curricula as I am sure there are still countless individuals who are unaware.

This is a historically important text, written for a middle grade audience. It is accessible to younger readers and tells the story in a compelling and humanizing way.

Growing up in Arkansas, I did not know about the Tulsa Race Massacre until 2020, when I read Tim Madigan’s The Burning. I was appreciative of Madigan’s account of a horrific, long-buried event in American history. Hillary Beard’s adaption of The Burning for young readers adds additional context that further makes this an important must-read for young adults and adults alike.

What I especially appreciated about this edition of The Burning was that events of the 1920s are explicitly linked to today — there is extensive discussion of how slavery and reconstruction led to the events in Greenwood and continuing white supremacy and racism in the United States has led to the murder of Emmitt Till, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others.

Teachers should be adding this to their classroom reading lists immediately, it is brimming with discussion potential. In addition, there is an long list of resources for further antiracist reading and research at the end that should not be overlooked.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group / Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) for the advance digital copy of this book.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who never learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in any of my history classes. I was intrigued by the title and read the original book by Tim Madigan in preparation for this book. This was a wonderful adapted version that made it accessible for young readers. This version does not sway from the original and gives the reader a better sense of what those experiencing this atrocity went through. A must read for anyone. As a homeschooling mom this has been added to our book list!

The Burning (Young Readers Edition) by Tim Madigan is a haunting account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Madigan does an amazing job of giving the reader a full picture of the societal issues during this time period and before that helps you understand how the massacre came to be. As a lifelong Oklahoman, I found myself learning a lot about our own Oklahoma history, and none of what I learned was pleasant. For example, Senate Bill NUMBER ONE...the first Senate bill ever in the state of Oklahoma was a Jim Crow bill. I wish I was surprised, but I'm not. This account was reader friendly and would give any upper middle or high school student a great outlook on the time period and the happenings in Greenwood.

In light of the new legislation passed by the Oklahoma legislatures and signed by the governor, it is sadly books like these that teachers will have a hard time teaching. Even though these books tell the true history of America and our state. However, if teachers, like yours truly, are looking for some "good trouble" this would be an important addition to every Oklahoman classroom.

I read Dreamland Burning years ago and was immediately interested in learning more about the Tulsa fire of 1921. Of course, like so much other history taught in schools, this event was never mentioned. It makes me mad and angry that the powers that be get to pick and choose the lessons and events children are taught - and that someone, somewhere is fine with leaving these gaping holes in that education. How are we supposed to learn from the past if we're not presented with a factual past? At this point, that is a rhetorical question, but one that begs an answer.

I love that this book is geared towards young adults and can only hope teachers will pick it up as a supplement to their school's curriculum. If not, I hope parents stumble upon it and get it to share with their children. After all, it is through our children that we even have hope of a better , more humane, world moving forward.

I was born and raised in the Midwest and yet knew nothing about this event in our nation's history. It wasn't until I read "Dreamland Burning" a couple years ago that I first learned of the Tulsa race massacre. This is an excellent nonfiction title for students to read with "Dreamland Burning" or to just learn more about the history of racism in our country. While I haven't read Tim Madigan's original work, I do feel that Hilary Beard did a fantastic job on creating this version for young readers. There were times I felt things were simply explained but then remembered I'm not the target audience. I hope more works that are as accessible and informed as this one are in the works; we certainly need them.

This was one of the most powerful books I have ever read. I feel ashamed that as an educated adult I didn't know the extent of the burning of Black Wall Street, in school I was taught about the Tulsa Race Riots as a passing detail during APUS history but that was where my details of that day ended. I now know that it wasn't a riot it was a massacre. This book would be such a moving strong reminder to anyone about what happens when we let hate take hold and take over. Moments in this book are horrific and heavy and should be taught to students with much forethought but this story is one that our young adults should know. Highly recommended for adults and adolescent students!