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A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick • National Bestseller • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in

The Authentics is a fresh, funny, and insightful novel about culture, love, and family — the kind we are born into and the ones we create.

New York Times bestseller — Winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel — Winner of the 2014 Dilys Award — A School Library Journal Best Book of 2013.

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast.

The Night Drummer is the story of two teenage friends—white, middle-class Peter Ellis, and Otis James, a native boy adopted by an older evangelical Christian couple. Peter and Otis grow up in small

Vector Sorn—intellectual and athletic prodigy—witnesses the tragic death of his mother when he is just fourteen years old.

Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie Hill knows something is up when she arrives home to find her father making a home-cooked dinner, instead of his standard delivery pizza.

It’s late 1969 and Communist China has successfully launched its first satellite.

Born with Down syndrome, Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like &quo

Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adul

It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager.

Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down.

These twelve linked stories confirm what we’ve suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmart our parents.

A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of "peace, love, rock and roll," and the Vietnam War.