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This Is My AmericaThis Is My America

This Is My America

Kim Johnson

4.2(19)on Hardcover

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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?

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OL Work ID
OL20758839W

Subjects

Children's fictionyoung adultJudicial errorFictionYoung adult fictionRacism against Black peopleAfrican AmericansRace relationsPrisonersMurderFamily problemsJUVENILE FICTIONGeneralRacism against BlacksRacismErrorsHomicideFamily life

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