A review by shirleytupperfreeman
This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Coming in July, this YA novel about racial injustice is hard to put down! High school junior Tracy Beaumont has been writing weekly letters to Innocence X (a fictional version of the Equal Justice Initiative made famous by Just Mercy) to ask them to take on her father's case. Her dad has been serving 7 years on death row for a crime Tracy is sure he did not commit. At the same time, a fellow journalism classmate is found dead and Tracy's high-achieving brother is on the run. How was her brother involved with this girl? What story was she investigating for the high school paper? How can Tracy get help for her dad before his time runs out in a few months? As Tracy searches for answers to help her family and get to the truth, she discovers some horrific history in their small town. This is both a fun detective story and a sobering account of how low some people will go to preserve the (white) status quo.