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This Is My America Hardcover – 28 July 2020

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"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin

The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present?

Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.

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"An incredible and searing examination of the often tragic collision of racism and a flawed criminial justice system. Read and reread ... and reared again." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin

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This is My America promises a powerful story about racial injustice, featuring stunning prose reminiscent of Nic Stone and Angie Thomas." --Paste Magazine

About the Author

KIM JOHNSON held leadership positions in social justice organizations as a teen. She's now a college administrator who maintains civic engagement throughout the community while also mentoring Black student activists and leaders. This Is My America is her debut novel. It explores racial injustice against innocent Black men who are criminally sentenced and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland, College Park. Kim lives her best life in Oregon with her husband and two kids. Find her at KCJOHNSONWRITES.COM and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @kcjohnsonwrites.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc (28 July 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593118766
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593118764
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 - 17 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.94 x 3.56 x 21.92 cm
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KIM JOHNSON held leadership positions in social justice organizations as a teen and in college. She’s now a college administrator who maintains civic engagement throughout the community. This Is My America was her debut novel and explores racial injustice against innocent black men who are criminally sentenced and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland, College Park.

You can find her @kcjohnsonwrites on Twitter,TikTok, and Instagram and her website www.kcjohnsonwrites.com

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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2021
    This book is excellent, a must read for absolutely everyone. It is so well written, characters well developed, sharp and honest. There are so many thought provoking and informative facts weaved into this amazing book. Thank you Ms Johnson
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2020
    Content Warnings: Anti-Black racism, mentions of very violent racist hate crimes towards Black people and Vietnamese people (lynching), the KKK, racist micro-aggressions, mentions of past parental abuse.

    When I found out about this book I immediately added it to my TBR and was desperate to get my hands on a copy. And with everything that’s been happening with the Black Lives Matter movement this summer I think this book has come out at a great time for people who are eager to learn more.

    In This Is My America we follow Tracy, whose father has received the death sentence for a crime that Tracy believes he did not commit. Tracy has spent the last few years sending letters to an Innocence Project, where lawyers will represent people who have been convicted wrongfully. It’s already stressful enough for the family as it’s getting closer and closer to the date set for the father, then Tracy’s brother Jamal is the main suspect in the murder of one of Tracy’s friends. In investigating her brother’s case, she finds both of her family’s cases may be more connected than she thought.

    This book made my heart RACE. I read it in a really short space of time, over about 3 days midweek, which is pretty fast for a workweek. I just really needed to know what was going to happen and Johnson’s writing was super immersive. I don’t really know what genre this is being advertised as but it was like a hard-hitting contemporary, a thriller and a mystery all in one, and it worked so well. I was just so desperate to know what was going to happen and how it was going to end.

    I absolutely loved Tracy, she was so persistent and never backed down. It got her into trouble sometimes but it also meant that she got stuff done. She also had some fantastic relationships with the people in her life and in the short period of time that was spent with these characters I really grew to love them.

    This book is both important and powerful. I say this knowing that Black people aren’t here to educate non-Black people, but I definitely think this novel is a fantastic starting point for teens who don’t know about the mess that is the American Judicial system and how it unfairly targets Black people. Education on this topic is sorely lacking in schools so I really do hope that this book does well and prompts people to do some research and learn about it.

    Something I found interesting in This Is My America was that whilst all the issues with the police and the law is happening in Tracy’s life she also has the usual teenage nonsense going on. She’s trying to figure out her feelings for a boy from her past as well as her best friend. Whilst it could be considered a love triangle, it wasn’t cringey, it felt apt. Just because Tracy is fighting against injustice doesn’t mean she’s just going to stop being a teenager.

    This is my America is an absolutely fantastic read. It covers some truly awful and horrifying topics in a way that is so readable and thrilling. I am going to be looking out for Johnson’s future books because this was such a stellar debut!
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2020
    Excellent, voicey young adult thriller with tension from the beginning and a countdown to save the main character's father from execution for a crime he didn't commit. This is a beautifully written, highly emotional, classic adventure with teens running around trying to solve an urgent problem that grown-ups keep telling them to stay out of, but throbbing with contemporary relevance and echoing with deep and timeless themes of bigotry, justice, and the ever-present institutional racism that half of America seems to be blind to. Buy this book.

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  • Nicole Harbour Lau
    5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful, inspirational story of determination and hope
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 September 2020
    "Perhaps because she's never had to walk in fear. Every day my senses are on alert, expecting something to happen. Sure, I'm shaken. Scared. Never imagined something like this could happen so close to home. But deep down this feeling is familiar. It runs through my veins, the blood from every generation before me passing down this fear, coded into my DNA."
    - Tracy, This Is My America

    "The laws might change, the systems might look different. All of these books say what the problem is. Working ten times harder to get half. Seems to me, all the blood that's been spilled ain't our debt. But we paying it over and over again. And the world acts like there's something wrong with us. They hate us so damn much. ... Four hundred years, and we still ain't American to them, T."
    - Jamal, This Is My America

    Tracy Beaumont has written a letter to Innocence X every week for seven years, asking for the non-profit organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row for a crime he didn't commit. With less than a year before his execution, Tracy knows time is running out to save her dad, but with no response in seven years, it seems like her efforts may be futile.

    As Tracy tries to not only keep pleading her dad's innocence, but to also keep organizing and hosting her "Know Your Right" workshops, writing her column for the school newspaper, and helping support her mother, brother, Jamal, and seven-year-old sister, Corinne, the pressure and stakes are suddenly raised even higher when the police show up at the Beaumont home. In a nightmarish turn, Jamal (an honor student and track star whose future is so bright) is wanted for allegedly murdering a white female classmate, and he is nowhere to be found.

    Can Tracy save both Jamal and her dad?

    This is another book that absolutely touched my heart and soul, and left me forever changed. Like The Hate U Give, Dear Martin, and On the Come Up, This Is My America opened my eyes even further to the overt and systemic racism and injustice in our country, and pointed to my white privilege. Though this story is fictional, the injustice, racism, stereotypes, and hurdles both James and Jamal Beaumont face in this book are rooted in reality that Black people in our country face every day, and that simultaneously breaks my heart and enrages me.

    Although this book was not easy to read, and had me in tears several times, it is such an important and relevant read, especially in light of the inhumane and unlawful treatment Black men and women have endured the past several years. I learned so much about racism within the criminal justice system, post-prison survival and recovery, police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, and innocence projects. Additionally, my heart broke each and every time I read about the fear and pain Black men, women, and children experience on a daily basis, and have experienced for generations. It especially pained me to see how these things impacted Corinne, who was forced to grow up so fast and seemed so much older than her seven years.

    From the first word to the last sentence of Kim's Author's Note, this was a book I absolutely could not put down. I fell in love with the Beaumonts, as well as Quincy, Beverly, and the Jones family, and their pain, as well as their triumphs, touched my heart. With masterful writing, an incredible storyline, and aspects of so many genres (including own voices, young adult, mystery, thriller, and romance), this book truly had it all, and it deserves every bit of five stars, and more.

    Thank you so much to author @kcjohnsonwrites for this incredible book (what an amazing debut for you!!!)! It has forever changed me, and if you haven't read or heard of it yet, please grab a copy ASAP! There is no doubt in my mind that this will be in my top 10 books for the year, and I can't wait to hear what other readers think. I also wholeheartedly believe this book should be on required reading lists for high schoolers. Kim, please let me know when you start working on your next book because I will be first in line to help get the word out!

    P.S. - Plese, please read the Author's Note at the end of this book! It is so informative and important!
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    Nicole Harbour Lau
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    A powerful, inspirational story of determination and hope

    Reviewed in the United States on 2 September 2020
    "Perhaps because she's never had to walk in fear. Every day my senses are on alert, expecting something to happen. Sure, I'm shaken. Scared. Never imagined something like this could happen so close to home. But deep down this feeling is familiar. It runs through my veins, the blood from every generation before me passing down this fear, coded into my DNA."
    - Tracy, This Is My America

    "The laws might change, the systems might look different. All of these books say what the problem is. Working ten times harder to get half. Seems to me, all the blood that's been spilled ain't our debt. But we paying it over and over again. And the world acts like there's something wrong with us. They hate us so damn much. ... Four hundred years, and we still ain't American to them, T."
    - Jamal, This Is My America

    Tracy Beaumont has written a letter to Innocence X every week for seven years, asking for the non-profit organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row for a crime he didn't commit. With less than a year before his execution, Tracy knows time is running out to save her dad, but with no response in seven years, it seems like her efforts may be futile.

    As Tracy tries to not only keep pleading her dad's innocence, but to also keep organizing and hosting her "Know Your Right" workshops, writing her column for the school newspaper, and helping support her mother, brother, Jamal, and seven-year-old sister, Corinne, the pressure and stakes are suddenly raised even higher when the police show up at the Beaumont home. In a nightmarish turn, Jamal (an honor student and track star whose future is so bright) is wanted for allegedly murdering a white female classmate, and he is nowhere to be found.

    Can Tracy save both Jamal and her dad?

    This is another book that absolutely touched my heart and soul, and left me forever changed. Like The Hate U Give, Dear Martin, and On the Come Up, This Is My America opened my eyes even further to the overt and systemic racism and injustice in our country, and pointed to my white privilege. Though this story is fictional, the injustice, racism, stereotypes, and hurdles both James and Jamal Beaumont face in this book are rooted in reality that Black people in our country face every day, and that simultaneously breaks my heart and enrages me.

    Although this book was not easy to read, and had me in tears several times, it is such an important and relevant read, especially in light of the inhumane and unlawful treatment Black men and women have endured the past several years. I learned so much about racism within the criminal justice system, post-prison survival and recovery, police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, and innocence projects. Additionally, my heart broke each and every time I read about the fear and pain Black men, women, and children experience on a daily basis, and have experienced for generations. It especially pained me to see how these things impacted Corinne, who was forced to grow up so fast and seemed so much older than her seven years.

    From the first word to the last sentence of Kim's Author's Note, this was a book I absolutely could not put down. I fell in love with the Beaumonts, as well as Quincy, Beverly, and the Jones family, and their pain, as well as their triumphs, touched my heart. With masterful writing, an incredible storyline, and aspects of so many genres (including own voices, young adult, mystery, thriller, and romance), this book truly had it all, and it deserves every bit of five stars, and more.

    Thank you so much to author @kcjohnsonwrites for this incredible book (what an amazing debut for you!!!)! It has forever changed me, and if you haven't read or heard of it yet, please grab a copy ASAP! There is no doubt in my mind that this will be in my top 10 books for the year, and I can't wait to hear what other readers think. I also wholeheartedly believe this book should be on required reading lists for high schoolers. Kim, please let me know when you start working on your next book because I will be first in line to help get the word out!

    P.S. - Plese, please read the Author's Note at the end of this book! It is so informative and important!
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  • Giambo
    3.0 out of 5 stars Libro perfetto ma arrivato tardi
    Reviewed in Italy on 27 August 2020
    Il libro era quello atteso, in ottime condizioni; i tempi di consegna sono stati un pò più dilatati rispetto al programmato
  • Jessica Page
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Much Needed in Today's Society!
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 May 2021
    This is My America is a novel that was published last year and is very timely with what was going on with our country. This is My America centers on Tracy and the Beaumont family. Seven years ago her father was convicted for double murder and sentenced to the death penalty; he is innocent and has only 267 days left, so his time is running out. Every week Tracy has written to Innocence X to try and receive help in her father’s case to no answer. Then the unexpected happens, a white girl is killed and Tracy’s brother Jamal is a suspect. And up to this moment he has never been in trouble with the law and had a very promising future. Jamal is on the run and now Tracy is determined to help both her father and now her brother.

    This is My America is Johnson’s debut novel and what a debut it is! It shows how incarnation affects every member of the convicted’s family and the injustices of African Americans. Johnson also shows us what it is like inside and visiting a convicted inmate in Texas. It also shows some history into the KKK and how that organization still exists today and what they can do. Johnson touches on so many important subjects and reaches her readers with very likable and enduring characters that you can’t help but feel emotions for.

    Written in short chapters, this is one novel you don’t want to put down as the reader becomes fully invested in the story and is rooting for Tracy to succeed in both her father and now brother’s cases. Be sure to read the author’s note at the end of the novel. Though Innocence X is a fictional organization, Johnson mentions actual organizations out there that work to free those wrongly convicted. I adore Tracy and her bravery at doing everything she can. She is a character that young girls could look up to.
    This is My America is one that needs to be read by all teens and touches on so many important subjects that our nation is dealing with more every day. This novel is up there with Dear Martin for me and may in fact even pass it in my reading. I cannot wait to see what Kim Johnson writes next!
  • B. Eaves
    5.0 out of 5 stars This Is My America
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 August 2024
    Wow,this is my best read of the year.A page turner I couldn’t put down..Battery die on Kindle and I read on IPAD.Great job by Ms Johnson.This was the authors debut novel.Looking forward to reading more by you,
  • Kim
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not a “New” copy…
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 January 2023
    This is not about the content of the book, as it is rather an interesting perspective to read. My issue with this is the product itself, as it was advertised as a new hardcover copy, in which I thought I was purchasing, but instead got a book with some wear and a good amount of tears-disappointing for sure. I would have just gotten a used book if I would have known otherwise, so that’s a bit of a shame, but other than that, I think the book itself is worth reading!
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    Kim
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Not a “New” copy…

    Reviewed in the United States on 27 January 2023
    This is not about the content of the book, as it is rather an interesting perspective to read. My issue with this is the product itself, as it was advertised as a new hardcover copy, in which I thought I was purchasing, but instead got a book with some wear and a good amount of tears-disappointing for sure. I would have just gotten a used book if I would have known otherwise, so that’s a bit of a shame, but other than that, I think the book itself is worth reading!
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