^ a b c d e Green, Adrienne (November 1, 2017).Children and Young Adult Literature portal.Stone was not planning on writing a sequel, but was encouraged by her publisher and decided to write a book about a "black boy that everybody is afraid of." References Quan first appears in Dear Martin as the cousin of Justyce's best friend. The book is about an incarcerated teen, Quan, who is on trial for murder charges. Stone wrote a sequel, Dear Justyce, which was published in October 2020. 2020 South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult ĭear Martin has been banned or challenged in several school districts in Georgia, as well as in the Monett school district in Missouri.2018 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee.
2018 ALA's Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.2018 American Library Association's (ALA) Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults.In February 2020, two years after it was first published, Dear Martin again hit the New York Times bestseller list, as the #1 Young Adult Paperback.
Martin Luther King, Jr, asking himself, "What would Dr. After the incident, Justyce attempts to make sense of life as a black teenager in the current political climate and begins writing letters to the spirit of Dr. Justyce is thrown to the ground and handcuffed by a white police officer. Plot ĭear Martin follows Justyce McAllister, a high school student living in Atlanta and attending a predominantly white preparatory high school on a scholarship. ĭear Martin has been translated and published in Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, the Netherlands, UK, Turkey, and Romania. Stone described the experience as "excruciating" and stated that she was not interested in repeating it. Stone sold her book as a proposal, resulting in her writing and researching simultaneously over an eight-week period to develop a draft. Stone was also inspired to write the book for her sons. Stone began writing the book after a series of racially-charge events, including the 2012 murder of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old who was killed by a man who shot several rounds into a car of teenagers over a dispute about loud rap music, and the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown. The book appeared as #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list. It is Stone's debut novel, written as a reaction to the murder of Jordan Davis. Dear Martin, published in 2017 by Crown Publishing Group, is a young adult novel by Nic Stone.
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