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Dear Martin

by Nic Stone

Ages: 14+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Crown BFYR/Random House/PRH

ISBN: 978-1-101-93949-9

Keywords: Race Relations, Racial profiling in law enforcement, Police brutality

During senior year of high school, an encounter withthe Atlanta police forces Justyce, seventeen, to reconsider the beliefs of Martin Luther King, Jr.