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saheffernan (157 KP) rated Dear Martin in Books

Jul 22, 2020  
Dear Martin
Dear Martin
Nic Stone | 2017 | Young Adult (YA)
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9.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
I didn't know it was possible to pack so many important topics into slightly over 200 pages. This book is unfortunately incredibly timely. Imagine trying to figure out who you are as a late teenager so you pick a role model like Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. and begin to write him letters to learn more of yourself and your world. Imagine that Dr. MLK Jr was fighting for your rights to be the same as other individuals around you over 72 years ago and although you have more rights you still don't have the same rights. You are looked at as less than and in so profiled by police and other people around you all the time. This book gave me more insight and ripped my heart out. I highly recommend this read for anyone wanting to learn more about racism, police brutality, white privilege and media issues when reporting about such cases. It maybe labeled as fictional but it is all too real of a story I've heard over and over again.
  
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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Jul 31, 2021  
How awesome is this scrapbook page from author Teddy Jones about West Texas!?! Check it out on my blog, and learn about her women's fiction novel MAKING IT HOME. Enter the giveaway to win a set of all three novels in her Jackson's Pond, Texas-the Series or a copy of her short stories/literary fiction novel Nowhere Near and a $25 Bookshop.org gift card!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/07/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-making-it.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
In this third novel in the Jackson’s Pond, Texas series, fifty-five-year-old Melanie Jackson Banks encounters racism, intolerance, and violence both in her family’s distant past and in current day Jackson’s Pond. She leads family and community efforts to create reconciliation for past wrongs and also to demonstrate strength and defiance in the face of vandalism, cross-burning, domestic violence, threats to Jackson Ranch’s operation, and kidnapping. In the midst of this stormy period, she finds allies in her mother’s long-time companion, Robert Stanley; her mother, Willa Jackson; her daughter Claire Havlicek; and many others.