num_pages: 416
description: Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA 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 timeher dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night and Tracys 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 towns racist history that still haunt the present?Fans of Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds wont want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.
language: English
title: This Is My America
publisher: Random House Children's Books