cover image The House You Pass on the Way

The House You Pass on the Way

Jacqueline Woodson. Putnam Publishing Group, $16.99 (112pp) ISBN 978-0-399-23969-4

The daughter of an interracial couple, 14-year-old Staggerlee is already an outsider when she wonders if she is gay, too. PW's starred review called this a ""poignant tale of self-discovery,"" and praised Woodson's ""graceful, poetic"" prose. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)