Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Adapted forYoung People) by Bryan Stevenson, 244 pages.
NON-FICTION Delacorte Press,
2018. $19
Content: Language: PG (3 swears); Mature
Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.
BUYING
ADVISORY: MS – ADVISABLE; HS – ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
This book
starts out with a young lawyer named Bryan Stevenson deciding that he is going
to spend his career helping minorities and the poor who have been wrongfully
convicted or have been given harsh sentences.
One of the major cases followed throughout the book is about a man named
Walter who was sentenced to death row for a murder that he never
committed. Bryan helps Walter and
demands that the evidence be reconsidered.
The book also follows multiple other cases that bring to light the
harshness of the U.S. justice system.
This book made me cry because it hurt my
heart. I think everyone would benefit
from the empathy and awareness that this book exposes. The stories are succinct and powerful and will
keep young adults’ interest, while hopefully at the same time making them aware
of social injustices. The content does
include reference to rape, sexual abuse, animal abuse and other upsetting acts
of violence. None of these acts are
described in detail but they are upsetting.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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