Summary
A Newbery Honor Book Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award A Morris Award Finalist An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019
This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalize…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781481465809 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1481465805 |
| Author: | Alicia D. Williams |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 140mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 9 |
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Critics Review
With its relatable and sympathetic protagonist, complex setting, and exceptional emotional range, this title is easy to recommend.
Reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, but appropriate for a much younger audience. – New York Times
With its relatable and sympathetic protagonist, complex setting, and exceptional emotional range, this title is easy to recommend. – Publishers Weekly, starred review
Debut novelist Williams takes readers through an emotional, painful, yet still hopeful adolescent journey … . [A] story that may be all too familiar for too many and one that needed telling. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *
Powerful. – Booklist
Compelling … . Readers will rejoice. – BCCB
With a name like Genesis, it’s hard to be the ‘new girl’ at school and remain unnoticed in a suburban classroom, especially if you are self-conscious about how you look. Teenaged Genesis struggles to accept both her skin color and her place in her complicated family. Alicia D. Williams skillfully develops a character who—with the help of friends, teachers, and some awesome bluesy music—learns to love herself and her family as she realizes that black is indeed beautiful. I really loved this debut novel. – Sharon M. Draper, author of the New York Times bestseller Out of My Mind
This is a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of a girl grappling with hard truths about her family and her own feelings of self-worth. A must for all collections.–Kefira Phillipe, Nichols Middle School, Evanston, IL – School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW * February 2019 *
Alicia D. Williams
Alicia D. Williams is the author of Mid-Air, which was longlisted for the National Book Award; Genesis Begins Again, which received Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent; and picture books Jump at the Sun, Nani and the Lion, and The Talk, which was also a Coretta Scott King Honor book. An oral storyteller in the African American tradition, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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