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Author's Note-Chapter 3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Johnson, George M. We Are Not Broken. Hachette Book Group, 2021. Hardcover.

· Johnson begins We Are Not Broken with an Author’s note.

· Tamir Rice was 12 when he was killed by police officers who mistook his toy gun for a real one.

· Johnson was a Black boy who played with toy guns, as were his cousins, Rall and Rasul, and his brother, Garrett.

· They were all told how unsafe it was for them to do so.

· Black boys did not have it easy in American society.

· The novel is a glimpse of the lives of the four of them who grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, under the supervision of their grandmother Nanny.

· Johnson warned that the book contained “heavy messages” including racism, anti-Blackness, and homophobia.

· Black boys were often seen as adults by...

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