Dear Martin

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Label

Dear Martin

Statement of responsibility

Nic Stone

Creator

• trueStone, Nic

Author

• trueStone, Nic

Subject

• trueYoung adult fiction
• truePrep schools
• Race relations
• trueRace relations
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRacial profiling
• Racial profiling in law enforcement
• Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Fiction
• Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRacism
• Racism
• Racism -- Fiction
• Racism -- Juvenile fiction
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Social Themes | Violence
• Young adult
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• trueAfrican American teenage boys
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• trueAmerican people
• trueBlack Lives Matter movement
• Epistolary fiction
• Epistolary fiction
• Fiction
• trueHigh school seniors
• Juvenile works
• King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968
• King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968
• King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968 -- Fiction
• trueLetters
• Letters
• Letters -- Fiction
• Letters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueNorth American people
• truePersonal letters
• Police brutality
• truePolice brutality
• Police brutality -- Fiction
• Police brutality -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Epistolary fiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Young adult
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works

Language

eng

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."--Jacket
• Writing 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

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices
• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2019.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2018.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2022.

Awards note

2018 William C. Morris Honor

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 813/.6
• [Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Young Adult
• HL720L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• UG
• UG

Language note

Text in English

LC call number

• PZ7.1.S7546
• PS3619.T663

LC item number

• De 2017
• D43 2017

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Reading level

• 5.4.
• 4.8
• 4.8

Study program name

• Reading Counts!
• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent