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4 Young Adult Crossover Novels
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DEAR JUSTYCE
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In Stone’s 2017 book “Dear Martin,” Justyce McAllister, a Black student attending a fancy boarding school, writes letters to Martin Luther King Jr. as a diarylike way to process the mixed and often heartbreaking results of his attempts to put Dr. King’s words into practice. After it was published
, Stone heard from a pair of readers who hoped in her next novel she’d write about people “not like Justyce”: “We don’t go to good colleges. … Honestly, we don’t even know if we’ll live past the age of 18.”
Your birthday card had a Black history postage stamp on it.
As always, it was from Grandma and though itâs kind of corny, you look forward to it ever year: a blue or red envelope outside, a sentimental saying with a few bucks tucked inside. Other than bills, ballots and ads, sheâs the only person you know who snail-mails anything, but in âDear Justyceâ by Nic Stone, help can be delivered, too.
The first time Vernell LaQuan Banks ran away, he was 9 years old.
His motherâs new man had been beating her again and though Quan hated leaving his little brother and sister there, he knew it was safer for them if he left the house. And so he went to the park, where he met Justyce McAllister, who was also taking an after-dark break from home.