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Snapshot: Two Boys on a Brand New Playground to Snapshot: One Boy Alone in a Library

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Stone, Nic. Dear Justyce. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020. Hardcover.

• Part One begins in the past with the “Snapshot: Two Boys on a Brand-New Playground (2010).”

• Quan left his house because he could not stand to see his mother slapped around by her boyfriend, Dwight.

• He wished he could have taken his four-year-old sister, Dasia, and his two-year-old brother, Gabe, but they were too little.

• He could not stand up to his mother’s boyfriend.

• He was only nine.

• The one time he had tried, Dwight had picked him up and thrown him across the room into the dining room table.

• Quan went to his favorite place at Wynwood Heights Park, a rocket.

• When he went inside, he began to...

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