Slay /
Morris, Brittney,
Slay / Brittney Morris - First Simon Pulse hardcover edition - 321 pages ; 22 cm
An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Kiera enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the few Black kids at Jefferson Academy. At home she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. When a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, the game is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. No one knows Kiera is the game developer-- until an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination." Can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?--adapted from jacket
9781534445420 1534445420 9781534445437 1534445439 9781534455245 1534455248
Simon & Schuster, 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075-7500 SAN 200-2442
2018052663
PZ7.1.M6727 / Sl 2019
813/.6
Slay / Brittney Morris - First Simon Pulse hardcover edition - 321 pages ; 22 cm
An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Kiera enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the few Black kids at Jefferson Academy. At home she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. When a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, the game is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. No one knows Kiera is the game developer-- until an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination." Can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?--adapted from jacket
9781534445420 1534445420 9781534445437 1534445439 9781534455245 1534455248
Simon & Schuster, 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075-7500 SAN 200-2442
2018052663
PZ7.1.M6727 / Sl 2019
813/.6