This is my America

The Resource This is my America
Label
This is my America
Statement of responsibility
Kim Johnson
Title variation
This is my America
Title variation remainder
a novel
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Author
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Genre
Language
eng
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
  • Every week 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 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. As Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike, she uncovers their Texas town's racist history. Will she prove her brother's innocence-- or cause her world to explode? -- adapted from jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
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no index present
Literary form
novels
Target audience
adolescent

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