Dear Martin

Praise for Dear Martin:A New York Times Bestseller!A William C. Morris Award Finalist!An ALAN / Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist!A 2018 BookExpo Editors’ Buzz Selection!An Indies Introduce Selection! A Kids’ Indie Next List pick!   “A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America.” –John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down   “Painfully timely and deeply moving.“ –Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Raw and gripping.“ –Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down “Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching. A must read!” –Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give “Teens, librarians and teachers alike will find this book a godsend…Vivid and powerful.“ –Booklist, Starred Review “A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly, persistent violence of social injustice.” –Publishers Weekly

Nic Stone is a native of Atlanta and a Spelman College graduate. After working extensively in teen mentoring and living in Israel for a few years, she returned to the United States to write full-time. Dear Martin, her first novel, is loosely based on a series of true events involving the shooting deaths of unarmed African American teenagers. Shaken by the various responses to these incidents—and to the pro-justice movement that sprang up as a result—Stone began the project in an attempt to examine current affairs through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings.