Dear JustyceAn unflinching look into the tragically flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system. Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University . . . and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to

All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity

Zonia's home is the Amazon rain forest

thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson

by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart

Christopher Silas Neal

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle

then must face an evil determined to steal everything from her

Because of Claudette's brave stand against injustice

and blistering emotional intelligence

Oprah Winfrey

An unflinching look into the tragically flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system

Poitier played only forceful and affecting characters who said something positive