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STAND OUT is a collection of powerful, inspiring poems about young people finding the courage to be themselves. From battling bullying and embracing identity to celebrating friendship and self-worth, these poems speak to anyone learning to stand tall in their own skin.

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with...

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving. "This is more than a story about sexual...

Meu "eu" do passado se preparou para ter você no presente. Quando nos conhecemos, vestia a minha recém-conquistada maturidade e carregava a minha melhor versão. Naquela época ainda não sabia, mas era para você. Dois amores que se procuravam e, por um descuido, se esbarraram. Você chegou aos poucos, quase sem querer. Quase... Porque foi querendo que você permaneceu ao meu lado, mesmo quando tudo parecia jogar contra. E em tempos de amores líquidos, você decidiu fincar raízes.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection "Powerful…. The excellent pacing and heart-wrenching exploration of redemption will sweep readers up." —Kirkus Reviews In this tour de force about one teen’s quest for redemption from the award-winning author of American Road Trip, Antonio is...

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Odyssey Honor Audiobook A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of...

Award-winning spoken word artist George the Poet brings together an incredible roster of Black British poets in this important and exciting new anthology, exploring people, moments and events from Black British history. Featuring works by established poets and new wordsmiths alike, Part of a Story That Started Before Me is the perfect listen for fans of Kayo Chingonyi's More Fiya and David Olusoga's Black and British.

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautiful poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger. Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the...

In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on—to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in.

Todos -absolutamente todos- queremos que nos quieran. Es simple. Queremos sentirnos necesitados. Queremos que nos pidan que regresemos, si nos vamos. Queremos pensar que alguien piensa en nosotros, cuando es tan tarde que debemos irnos a dormir.

Jack Frost currently finds herself training Nathan Masterson, a protege with a magic thought to be extinct, who now finds himself drawing attention from the Organization, the magical government's law enforcement group. On the run for a murder he didn't commit, and struggling with the secrets of his past - is Nathan seeing double, or is someone out to frame him? Even with help from Jack, the world seems colder than usual as death approaches. It's gonna be a cold summer. Get ready for Frost.

They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black...

A powerful biography in poems​ about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage...

For Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School's Spoken Word Club, there is one phrase that reigns supreme: Respect the Mic. It's been the club's call to arms since its inception in 1999. As its founder Peter Kahn says, "It's a call of pride and history and tradition and hope." This vivid new collection of poetry and prose - curated by award-winning and bestselling poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan "Sully" Sullivan - illuminates just that, uplifting the incredible legacy this community has cultivated.

Somos de quien nos cuida, de quien nos dice que todo va a salir bien cuando creemos que todo va mal. Porque ni cuando piensas que todo va mal, estamos tan mal, ni cuando pensamos que todo va genial, estamos tan genial. La vida hay que compartirla para que nos den más perspectivas, para ver el mundo a través de otros ojos, para que nos encuentren salidas cuando no tenemos ni puta idea de adónde ir. Y no conozco otros ojos mejores para ver la vida que los tuyos, y no sé a quién cuidar si no es a ti. Y eso, que estoy bien pero que estaría mejor contigo.

En Corazón y tiempo, Iago, continúa con su viaje vital que comenzó en Viajes a Kerguelen. Para él, este viaje, este destino, tiene el nombre mítico de Kerguelen, su país, su región utópica, aunque entendemos que la única patria verdadera es la que habita debajo de la piel. Las palabras traspasan las fronteras físicas que imponen sus audios, para instalarse en alguno de los huecos que, aunque nos pese, la vida acaba poniendo en nuestro corazón. Audiolibro-faro para iluminarlos.

A stranger walks into a restaurant and has an even stranger request - a meal in exchange for a song. Would you be willing to help someone even though you know they could never repay you? One couple did, and what they received was so much more than what they gave.

The Girl with a Thousand Eyes takes the YA listener, bordering on the verge of adulthood, through a poignant journey of life’s unexpected, spirit-lifting triumphs and trials of personal transformation. From New York City club life and LGBTQ love poems to existential reflections on transmigration, Ji Strangeway’s poetic verses reveal a heartfelt narrative of self-discovery. Alliterative lines, bold stanzas, and lulling metaphors awaken the dreaming psyche with promise and lead us poem by poem, toward the heart of the divine.

Akilah is a 13-year old author who uses the power of pen and paper to vividly describe the roller coaster of emotions she’s encountered throughout her young life. At 13, Akilah has already experienced the challenges of navigating and overcoming obstacles associated with questioning her worth and the world’s expectations. This book provides a glimpse inside of Akilah’s challenges and how she used the power of her words to find the power within herself to prevail and continue her stride towards the best version of her.

Jesse-Ray Lewis, 19, enters a West Virginia "safe house" with few possessions beyond the kerchiefs that identify him as a gang member. An age-out foster child, he lands in Bluefield, where a charity gives him food. What follows is the personal, dramatic story of two people who intervene in the life of a homeless, drug-abusing teen with a background of violence and neglect. In their next-door suite called the safe house, they impose three rules: "No alcohol or drugs. You have to work. You have to go to school." Jesse-Ray expresses gratitude. But what does he want? The couple struggles to determine his true motives....