Middle Grade
2 books, newest first
All the Blues in the Sky2025 · Contemporary
Newbery Medal 2026Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Honor 2026Walter Dean Myers Honor 2026Charlotte Huck Honor 2026ALSC Notable Children's Book 2026
On her thirteenth birthday, Harlem girl Sage loses her best friend Angel in a hit-and-run. Overwhelmed by grief, she joins a counseling group with other grieving kids and struggles to open up.
Black Girl You Are Atlas2024 · Memoir
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Honor 2025NCTE Notable Verse Novel 2025Coretta Scott King Author Honor 2025Walter Dean Myers Award 2025ALSC Notable Children's Book 2025
A semi-autobiographical collection of poems, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, tracing Renée Watson's growing up as a Jamaican American girl in Portland, Oregon.