This is my America / Kim Johnson.
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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593118764
- ISBN: 0593118766
- ISBN: 9780593118795
- ISBN: 0593118790
- ISBN: 9780780499690
- ISBN: 0780499697
- Physical Description: 406 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 12-17 years HL640L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile Young adult |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 12.0 Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 12 509901. |
Awards Note: | Gateway Readers Award nominee, 2022-2023. |
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Subject: | Racism > Fiction. Judicial error > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Prisoners > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Family problems > Fiction. |
Genre: | Novels. Social problem fiction. |
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This Is My America
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This Is My America
"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.