Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME After a traffic stop turns violent at the hands of the police, a young Black teen grapples with racism-and what it means for his future. Critically acclaimed author Nic Stone boldly tackles America’s troubled history with race relations in her gripping debut novel. "Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You Justyce is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend-but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs without cause. When faced with injustice, Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce and a friend spark the fury of an off-duty cop. Words fly, shots are fired, and the boys get caught in the crosshairs. But in the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack. "A must-read!” -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give "Powerful, wrenching.” -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down Review Praise for Dear Martin:A New York Times Bestseller!A William C. Morris Award Finalist!An ALAN / Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist!A 2018 BookExpo Editors' Buzz Selection!An Indies Introduce Selection! A Kids' Indie Next List pick! “A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America.” -John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "Painfully timely and deeply moving." -Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Raw and gripping." -Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down "Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching. A must read!" -Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give "Teens, librarians and teachers alike will find this book a godsend...Vivid and powerful." -Booklist, Starred Review "A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly, persistent violence of social injustice." -Publishers Weekly About the Author Nic Stone is a native of Atlanta and a Spelman College graduate. After working extensively in teen mentoring and living in Israel for a few years, she returned to the United States to write full-time. Dear Martin, her first novel, is loosely based on a series of true events involving the shooting deaths of unarmed African American teenagers. Shaken by the various responses to these incidents-and to the pro-justice movement that sprang up as a result-Stone began the project in an attempt to examine current affairs through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings. You can find her fangirling over her husband and sons on Twitter and Instagram at @getnicced or on her website nicstone.info. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. chapter 1From where he’s standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot. She’s missing a shoe, and the contents of her purse are scattered around her like the guts of a pulled party popper. He knows she’s stone drunk, but this is too much, even for her.Jus shakes his head, remembering the judgment all over his best friend Manny’s face as he left Manny’s house not fifteen minutes ago.The walk symbol appears.As he approaches, she opens her eyes, and he waves and pulls his earbuds out just in time to hear her say, “What the hell are you doing here?”Justyce asks himself the same question as he watches her try-and fail-to shift to her knees. She falls over sideways and hits her face against the car door.He drops down and reaches for her cheek-which is as red as the candy-apple paint job. “Damn, Melo, a

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