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Summary:

Bryan Stevenson details from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most marginalized people.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Higher ground
• Mockingbird players
• Stand
• Trials and tribulation
• The old rugged cross
• Homeland
• Surely doomed
• Justice denied
• All God's children
• I'm here
• Mitigation
• I'll fly away
• Mother, mother
• Recovery
• Cruel and unusual
• Broken
• The stonecatchers' song of sorrow.

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Bryan , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Just mercy: adapted for young adults: a true story of the fight for justice [by Stevenson, B.]

Subjects:

Stevenson, Bryan — Juvenile literature

Equal Justice Initiative — Juvenile literature

Lawyers — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature

Social reformers — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature

Sentences (Criminal procedure) — United States — Juvenile literature

Criminal justice, Administration of — United States — Juvenile literature

Equality before the law — United States — Juvenile literature

Stevenson, Bryan

Equal Justice Initiative

Lawyers

Social reformers

Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Criminal justice, Administration of

Equality before the law

United States

Genres:

Autobiographies

Juvenile works

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index.
"This work is based on Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption, copyright 2014 by Bryan Stevenson"--Title page verso.
Reading Counts HS 10.7 24

Audience:

Preteens
Children
Ages: 10-13.
Grades: 5-8.
1130L (source: Lexile)

Physical Description:

277 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

J921 S842a

ISBNs:

9780525580041 (library bound)
9780525580034 (hardback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018015248

OCLC Numbers:

1020311553

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg20421405