00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Johnson, Kim ::[VerfasserIn]:: aut Verfasser/-in Amerika $aNovels$xlcgft $aNovels$xfast $aFiction$xfast $aYoung adult works$xfast $aTexas$xfast $aRacism against Black people$xfast $aPrisoners$xfast $aMurder$xfast $aAfrican Americans$xfast $aJudicial error$xfast $aRace relations$xfast This is my America Kim Johnson New York Penguin 2022 First Ember edition 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 9780593118795 9780593118795 0593118790 0593118790 406 pages