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Tyler Johnson Was Here
by Jay Coles
A tense and emotional first-person YA novel about a Black teen who's twin brother goes missing and is later found dead after the police bust up a party they were both attending.
Marvin Johnson's experiences with police brutality, injustice, and trauma are difficult but important to read and will hit home, especially with teen readers. Readers will either be extremely frustrated with some of the dangling plot points that are never answered and left to the imagination or will delight in coming up with their own endings for Marvin, his mom, his father, and his friends.
My favorite parts of the book were Marvin's father's letters.
Marvin Johnson's experiences with police brutality, injustice, and trauma are difficult but important to read and will hit home, especially with teen readers. Readers will either be extremely frustrated with some of the dangling plot points that are never answered and left to the imagination or will delight in coming up with their own endings for Marvin, his mom, his father, and his friends.
My favorite parts of the book were Marvin's father's letters.