Do you like to read young adult novels? It’s cool; we do too! Join us for this special edition summer book club, High School Reunion! It’s YA for grownups!

Copies of the book can be checked out from the La Crescent Public Library. Just ask at the desk! Read the book, and come discuss at Sports Hub in the side room over dinner and drinks! It’ll be a fun, social, engaging chat with other readers who love YA just as much as you!

Our August selection is This is My America by Kim Johnson. Nominated as Best Fiction for Young Adults by both Goodreads and the American Library Association.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time—her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present?