Jay Coles

A young man searches for answers after the death of his brother at the hands of police in this striking debut novel, for readers of The Hate U Give. When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean. Tyler Johnson Was Here is a powerful and moving portrait of youth and family that speaks to the serious issues of today--from gun control to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tyler Johnson Was Here

Rebecca Roanhorse

S. K. Ali

Sara Farizan

Phoebe North

Rin Chupeco

Anna-Marie McLemore

Sangu Mandanna

Adi Alsaid

Sandhya Menon

Elsie Chapman

Karuna Riazi

Caroline Tung Richmond

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors—including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco—comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one and the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

13 Tales of Food & Love

Hungry Hearts

Tochi Onyebuchi

Jason Reynolds

Nic Stone

Rita Williams-Garcia

Coe Booth

Kekla Magoon

Ibi Zoboi

Dhonielle Clayton

Lamar Giles

Brandy Colbert

Justina Ireland

Renée Watson

Liara Tamani

Varian Johnson

Leah Henderson

Tracey Baptiste

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more—because there are countless ways to be Black enough. Contributors: Justina Ireland Varian Johnson Rita Williams-Garcia Dhonielle Clayton Kekla Magoon Leah Henderson Tochi Onyebuchi Jason Reynolds Nic Stone Liara Tamani Renée Watson Tracey Baptiste Coe Booth Brandy Colbert Jay Coles Ibi Zoboi Lamar Giles

Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Black Enough

From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. It's hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure . . . especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. There are no easy answers to love -- whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity -- hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be.

Things We Couldn't Say

The Pogues hit the beach in another action–packed original YA novel based on the hit Netflix show, Outer Banks The waves are off the hook, and Pope and the other Pogues are betting big on Kiara blowing the Kook competition out of the water. What could possibly go wrong? It's summer in the OBX, and a big surfing competition is bringing in pro surfers from around the world to Kildare Island, along with plenty of Kooks and tourists. Meanwhile, a storm has delivered massive waves, making for perfect--yet challenging-surfing conditions. But Kiara, who has been training, is up for the challenge. As for Pope, he just started his summer internship at the city morgue—his dream job! When Kiara strikes up a flirtation with one of the pro surfers, Pope, John B, and JJ can't help but get a little jealous at the attention she receives. Meanwhile, the visiting surfers are treating Pope's dad, Heyward, like some kind of hero, but he won't explain why. When one of the professional surfers washes up dead on the beach, everyone assumes he got crushed by a wave. But Pope, Kiara, and the rest of the Pogues aren't so sure.

Outer Banks: Dead Break

We all have a story to tell and so does the protagonist in this really poignant novel. Have you wondered what life is like from someone else's eyes? Actually, someone with a mental illness? Wesley J. Ellwanger, at first, is an average teenage boy with a severe desire to take the hottest girl to the prom and drive his parents crazy. Every one in the Ellwanger family has a secret. After a loss of innocence, and after a devastating plane crash, Wesley (Wes) J. Ellwanger's life is changed forever and so is his personality and his way of living. Will Wes be able to cope with his new life? Will he ever be able to escape his past? Most importantly, will he remember?

The Growing Feathers

My Life Matters

Varsity soccer captain, flautist, and 80s Rock enthusiast, Gunner Bradley, thinks that "life is a sequence of miracles and tragedies and some tragedies are bigger than others." Gunner's tragedy waited until he was at his prime, and then everything was lost. One spectacularly unforgettable night, a drunk driver shatters Gunner's arm, his dream, and his social life. No longer a member of his old squad--or dating the hottest girl at Cedar Park High, Gunner finds himself in a depression that he wants out of. Just as all the life inside of him is sucked out, new girl and oddity, Piper Michelle Fitzpatrick, comes along and changes his life forever. Piper is unlike anyone Gunner's ever encountered--speechless, fiercely clever, and uniquely on the brink of life and death. As a team, Gunner and Piper discover the beauty of living, from nude beaches, flash mobs, and sitting in trees to watch over the world. But just as Gunner dives into resurging a new life with his new mystery girl at his side, new friendships blossom, things get a bit more blurred, when Piper becomes a girl incapable of feeling and understanding love. As Gunner copes with all the tragic things that continue to strike him, he discovers how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings. He learns from his therapist that life is a duality, and now he must consider: Is suicide the answer? Will it ever be the answer? Should it ever have been a question? COME AS YOU WERE is for fans of classics like THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, yet it is still similar to more recent young adult books like New York Times Best Selling Author, Robyn Schneider's, THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING, like debut author, Adam Silvera's, MORE HAPPY THAN NOT, and like award-winning-writer, Jay Asher's, THIRTEEN REASONS WHY.

Come as You Were

Tyler Johnson était là

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