As the coping mechanism in the means to gather his thoughts, he begins to write letters to the spirit of dr. martin luther king junior. dear martin. asking himself, what would mlk do if you are alive today? this is not the latest area police aggression for a black teen. could be. but it is the plot of nick stone s new york times bestselling novel, dear martin. it is the featured book on today s velshi banned book club. you cannot googled your martin without seeing how extensively the book has been censored and banned. a group of parents in minnesota removed the children from an english class, entirely, over it. a teacher in missouri was effectively fired over a lesson plan surrounding the book. the mother of a soft march to school a high school in north carolina defended her own calls to ban the book by citing, quote, a lot of language in a lot of sexual endo. for, reference the first chapter of your mind contains about five curse words in a couple of slaying references to