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This is my America  Cover Image Book Book

This is my America / Kim Johnson.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0593118766
  • ISBN: 9780593118764
  • Physical Description: 406 pages
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]

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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 23.99
Subject: African Americans > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Prisoners > Fiction.
Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Racism > Fiction.
Judicial error > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Texas > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    Sending weekly letters to an organization she hopes will save her innocent father from death row, 17-year-old Tracy uncovers racist community secrets when her track star brother is wrongly accused of murder. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
  • Random House, Inc.
    "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.

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