4 Young Adult Crossover Novels
Credit.John Gall
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.”