This Is My America

by Kim Johnson

Book Overview

"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin

The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593118766
• ISBN13: 9780593118764
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Page turner with a purpose

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I actually read it from my library and then ordered it immediately after I finished it. It has important themes (ie racism, police brutality) and it’s just totally engrossing - like a Mission Impossible story yet much more realistic. The only thing I didn’t like about this story is it swears quite a bit more than I’ll typically tolerate in a book. It says all of them, multiple times. Except maybe not taking the Lord’s name in vain. The swearing is actually why I bought it. So I can edit it and then whole heartedly recommend it and loan my copy to friends. I recommend it for people 13+ who don’t mind swearing.