Dear Martin, Nic Stone
Type
Label
Dear Martin, Nic Stone
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Young AdultHL720L, Lexile
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Dear Martin
Responsibility statement
Nic Stone
resource.studyProgramName
Reading Counts!, 5.4.Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.8, 6.0.Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 4.8, 6, 192070.
Summary
"Justyce McAllister is top of his class at Braselton Prep, captain of the debate team, and set for an Ivy League school next year- but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He's eventually released without charges (or an apology), but the incident rattles him. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood, he can't seem to escape the scorn of his former peers or the attitude of his new classmates. The only exception: Sarah Jane, Justyce's gorgeous -and white- debate partner he wishes he didn't have a thing for. Justyce has studied the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But do they hold up now? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up. Much to the fury of the white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly, Shots are fired. And Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack."--JacketWriting letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him
Target audience
adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Juvenile works
- Race relations
- Police brutality
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Racism
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Police brutality -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- African Americans
- Police brutality -- Fiction
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance3
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject25
- Juvenile works
- Race relations
- Police brutality
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Racism
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Police brutality -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- African Americans
- Police brutality -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1