This was fantastic, and the VOICE in this was everything you want in a book - clear and concise that is also engaging and packs a big punch.
Justyce McAllister is about to take off into a successful future - ready for the Ivy League. But the police assume he's a thug, and his classmates say he's off to college because of affirmative action - not his intellect and hard work. He feels beat down by racism/microaggressions from his peers, news he's seeing about "thugs" like him, and he turns to someone that gets it - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He starts a journal to him for guidance on this world (especially when life changes in a big way), and we get to read it.
I really look forward to the day where my kids are old enough to read this and other books like The Hate U Give - simply because it's all right there - providing true and real context to the headlines - and what it would FEEL like to be someone that is part of this first-hand reality. I also strongly urge you to read lots of educational non-fiction (especially Stamped from the Beginning) paired with more diverse voice fiction novels - because it is like putting on glasses in a whole new way. Backed with the full history of racism and a pulse on current events - books like this is what brings it all together - to show WHY this should matter to EVERYONE in humanity.
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