Dear Justyce

Dear Justyce is a well written book. It has a lot of ups and downs to the point that I would have to stop reading for a couple of hours to a day. Just when I was thinking I can’t take it anymore, the book would take a positive turn. It is a good read and recommended for all middle to high school students.

It would be impossible for me to love this book more! I read Dear Martin before and loved it but this one beats that one. Reading the story about Quan reminded me of what my mother told me about teaching first grade in an inner city school of Indianapolis. The children she taught were a younger version of Quan. Very poor, usually they had a family member incarcerated. They would come to school crying. When my mother asked them about it, she would hear " My brother was shot last night".From the beginning, to be able to survive, a child needs a whole lot of people in their corner. My mother was one of those people. She was so of the female version of Doc who was in both books. Food. a roof over their heads, emotional support, deep caring is what they need and we all need.Thank you so much, Nic Stone. I get you!

I’m a very picky book person, if a book doesn’t have that pull me in, keep me reading it 24/7, I’m going to put it down. but this book had amazing dialogue, descriptions, it had everything. The author made you feel like you were right there, experiencing everything yourself. 5 stars most definitely, love this book!

Excellent read! Highly Recommend!

The book itself was amazing, I loved everything about it. I ordered a hardcover and when the book arrived, the paper on the outside was wrinkled and dented in some areas. I heavily recommend reading this book!

Although the TEAM around Quan is fictional-the criminal justice system should learn that this is how people should be treated.Everyone needs to know that they “are innocent until proven otherwise.”This story is beautifully written and I look forward to reading other books by this author!!!

I read the first book in this series and said it presented an unvarnished truth. After reading this companion story I understand that Quan’s story is much closer to reality. The lives of Quan and Justyce had a similar start yet their paths diverged. What if Quan also had a mother that sought out the opportunity for a better education for her son, would he have avoided much trauma and incarceration? Of course, these are fictional characters, but the author created them from her research of the thousands of youth that are trapped by similar circumstances. The book is in the end a call to action. Everyone can look for opportunities to lift someone up and help them see their own value.

I absolutely loved this book I could nkt put it down. The plot twist! And I absolutely love how Justyce wrote letters to help him find himself and now the same thing is happening but he's the one recieving the letters.

This book is addictive

yes, we must read Dear Justyce just to remind ourselves that we must fight for every single one. Nobody can be left behind. Nobody! And sometimes things are not what they look like. Never judge any person from "their cover".

I ordered this book from amazon and it came in excellent condition! I am writing review for the book below:Dear Justyce by Nic StoneRate 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This sequel is really good, it’s powerful and important to read.In the book Dear Justyce, we can read about Quan’s life and I honestly enjoyed hearing the story from his point of view.Through Quan’s eyes, we can see how he struggled in his life since the traumatic arrest of his father when he was eleven. He slowly starts to lose hope, but Justyce and a few other people who believe in justice, help him to see the world from a different angle and help him to win the injustice system.The book is hopeful, and this is the reason why everybody needs to believe in themselves and that with the right education you can have a clear pathway to success.Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Dear Justyce and if you can, read Dear Martin first.

After the exceptional novel which is 'Dear Martin', Nic Stone brings another gut punch with the incredible sequel 'Dear Justyce'. Both of these novels do a lot of great work exposing the reality of racism in modern society, this one in particular focusing on systemic racism in the American justice system. In fact, it it the perfect companion piece to the the breathtaking novel-in-verse 'Punching the Air' (Zoboi and Salaam) which has a similar hard-hitting message.The opening author's note tells the reader that in this novel, she wanted to turn the reader's eye away from boys like Justyce, who is academically successful and flourishes at a private school then Ivy League college, to focus on boys who were not lucky enough to rise to these heights. Instead, our main character for the majority of the sequel is Quan, Manny from 'Dear Martin's cousin, who has been imprisoned for shooting and killing a white police officer. We already know this police officer was corrupt and racist, having racially profiled and wrongfully put Justyce in handcuffs for an extended period of time in the first novel, and we find out more about his aggression towards Quan and the murder in this sequel.Gaps are filled in as we see Quan's childhood presented in parallel with his letters to Justyce from prison, growing up with an incarcerated father, domestic abuse in the home, being drawn into gang activity and the associated trauma of these events. Stone does not shy away from the brutal reality of Quan's upbringing, gaining the reader's support and sympathy for Quan whilst breaking their hearts with his feeling that an extended prison sentence for him was inevitable.Stone herself admits that Quan's story in slightly altered from reality due to him having a solid system of support, a tutor, a therapist, legal counsel, which does not reflect the reality of many of the forgotten boys like him in prison and juvenile detention. However, she highlights the injustice of Quan's position enough to enrage and educate any reader whilst also emphasising the systems which could support happier endings to the lives of many young, black prison inmates.Overall, this is even more emotionally effecting than 'Dear Martin' and should certainly be given to readers of any age to read but I can see it being particularly impactful with young adults. I cannot wait to bring this to students in my classroom to spark frank discussion about race, injustice and Black Lives Matter.

Brilliant book!! Absolutely loved it as truly told it from side of the less fortunate, the unlucky, the stereotyped...but still gave element of true hope! ❤️ perfect successor to the Dear Martin