"A YA coming-of-age novel about a first-year, first-generation Blacack student at Dartmouth College." -- There are many watchers and they are always white. That is the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite graduating high school in Cleveland as valedictorian, she is struggling to keep up in demanding classes. The campus is not the promised rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice. Nor is it a paradise...

Shy sixteen-year-old Ramona uses cosplay as a way to escape her shyness and feel seen, but when she emails her crush using her online persona, Rel, and he starts to fall for her, Ramona must decide whether to hide behind her character forever or take a chance and let her crush see the real her. Ramona Lambert's best friend has moved away; her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay; and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists....

"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memoriesof Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...

"Char has always had to be tough. It doesn't matter what Maleeka, Miss Saunders, and even her sister and guardian, Juju, say. But the hard edges that have always driven people away are now all the protection she has against the world. Turned out of the only home she's ever known, Char boards a bus to nowhere and falls prey to a complex system that takes advantage of vulnerable teens. While Char is living a nightmare, she's smart and strong and determined...