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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Police brutality Fiction Police brutality Juvenile fiction Race relations Fiction Race relations Juvenile fiction Racial profiling in law enforcement Juvenile fiction Racism Juvenile fictionStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOAlyse, Charity
Summary: When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALYArnold, Marie
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARNMoulite, Maika
Summary: "When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOUBruen, Ken.
Summary: Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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Summary: When her boyfriend announces he is dissolving their legal practice for a partnership with another woman, lawyer Bennie Rosato is shocked. Nothing like the shock she gets when police arrive to say the boyfriend is dead and they think she killed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SCOBandele, Asha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STOPetrus, Junauda
Summary: "A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETReynolds, Jason
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015