This is my America /
Johnson, Kim, 1979-
This is my America / Kim Johnson. - 406 pages ; 22 cm
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
9780593118764 0593118766 9780593118771 0593118774
2019024787
Judicial error--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Prisoners--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
This is my America / Kim Johnson. - 406 pages ; 22 cm
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
9780593118764 0593118766 9780593118771 0593118774
2019024787
Judicial error--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Prisoners--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.