{"id":100,"date":"2019-02-12T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:59:02","slug":"dear-martin-by-nic-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/dear-martin-by-nic-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Martin by Nic Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41zkZ%2B-gKAL.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"410\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dear Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America&#8217;\u00a0John Green, bestselling author of\u00a0<i>Turtles All the Way Down<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b>&#8216;Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching!\u00a0<\/b><b>A must-read!&#8217;\u00a0Angie Thomas, bestselling author of\u00a0<\/b><i><b>The Hate U Give<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Justyce McAllister<\/b>\u00a0is top of his class and set for the Ivy League \u2013 but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighbourhood behind, he can&#8217;t escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates.<\/p>\n<p><b>Justyce<\/b>\u00a0looks to the teachings of\u00a0<b>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/b>\u00a0for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the day\u00a0<b>Justyce<\/b>\u00a0goes driving with his best friend,\u00a0<b>Manny<\/b>, windows rolled down, music turned up \u2013\u00a0<i>way\u00a0<\/i>up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty police officer beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired.\u00a0<b>Justyce<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Manny<\/b>\u00a0are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it&#8217;s\u00a0<b>Justyce<\/b>\u00a0who is under attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America&#8217;\u00a0John Green, bestselling author of\u00a0Turtles All the Way Down &#8216;Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching!\u00a0A must-read!&#8217;\u00a0Angie Thomas, bestselling author of\u00a0The Hate U Give Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/dear-martin-by-nic-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear Martin by Nic Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}