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Just Mercy (Adapted)

by Bryan Stevenson11th Grade pick #36 · 288 pages · ISBN 9780525580034As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.
About this bookJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a memoir by Bryan Stevenson that documents his career as a lawyer for disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children who receive life sentences and other poor or marginalized clients. Initially published by Spiegel & Grau, then an imprint of Penguin Random House, on 21 October 2014 in hardcover and digital formats and by Random House Audi