Deschutes Public Library

This is my America, Kim Johnson

eng

no index present

HL640L, Lexile

fiction

This is my America

Kim Johnson

Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.3, 12, 12, 509901

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 275 days left. Then one night changes everything. The police arrive, pounding on the door, 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. And as Tracy discovers the racist history that haunts her small town's present, she begins to wonder whether she's lighting the torch that will illuminate her family's innocence... or lighting the fuse that will cause her world to explode. Kim Johnson's gripping debut is a revelation - an incendiary, crucial look at the American justice system, delivered as an uplifting read full of love conquering hate and of justice delivered in the face of injustice

adolescent