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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Fictional Work Novels Young adult works Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnson, Kim. This is my america. New York : Random House Children's Books, 2020 (DLC) 2019024788 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Johnson |
ISBN: | 9780593118764 0593118766 9780593118771 0593118774 |
OCLC Number: | 1107806758 |
Awards: | Winner of Oregon Book Award 2020 Short-listed for Pacific Northwest Book Award 2021 Nominated for Florida Teens Read 2021 Nominated for Missouri Gateway Readers Award 2022 Nominated for Oklahoma Book Award 2022 Nominated for Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award 2021 |
Description: | 406 pages ; 22 cm |
Other Titles: | This is my America : |
Responsibility: | Kim Johnson. |
Abstract:
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.
Every week 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 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. As Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike, she uncovers their Texas town's racist history. Will she prove her brother's innocence-- or cause her world to explode? -- adapted from jacket
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