This Is My America

ISBN-10: 0593118766
ISBN-13: 9780593118764
Author: Johnson, Kim
Interest Level: 7-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: July 2020

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 416

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Interest Level

Grades 7-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL640L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.3
Accelerated Reader Points: 12.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural *

Description
"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?