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This Is My America

Author: Johnson, Kim

Follett Number: 1622MX5
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Ember, c2020, p2022
Format: 406 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-11879-5
ISBN-10: 0-593-11879-0
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
African Americans Fiction
Family Problems Fiction
Judicial Error Fiction
Murder Fiction
Prisoners Fiction
Race Relations Fiction
Racism Fiction
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

From the publisher:
"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.

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