Dhonielle Clayton et al. Quill Tree, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-308809-2
Young Black love glows throughout this collaboration by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon, which follows six couples through a summer blackout in New York City. In a primary story arc,...
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Dhonielle Clayton et al. Quill Tree, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-0630-8814-6
Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon each take the reins writing individual character perspectives in this endearing follow-up to Blackout, a romantic confection set in snow-blown Atlanta....
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Tiffany D. Jackson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-242264-4
Mary Addison, a black 15-year-old from Brooklyn, has been locked up in “baby jail” for six years, after allegedly killing a three-month-old white child. Now living in a group home, Mary is bright, quiet, and well behaved, which makes her the target...
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Tiffany D. Jackson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-242267-5
Jackson’s sophomore novel, following 2017’s acclaimed Allegedly, features another ripped-from-the-headlines premise that will keep readers guessing through the final pages. After a summer in Georgia with her grandmother, Claudia returns to...
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Tiffany D. Jackson with Malik “Malik-16” Sharif. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-284032-5
Jackson (Monday’s Not Coming) deftly chronicles the timely story of bold young talent gone too soon and the survivors who struggle to keep it alive. The year is 1998 and aspiring teen rap artist Stephon Davis Jr. is dead in Brooklyn, the victim of...
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Tiffany D. Jackson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-284035-6
Jackson (Let Me Hear a Rhyme) preaches the word of young women eager to be grown before their time in this story of talent, ambition beyond opportunity, forbidden attraction, and the deadly consequences thereof. Seventeen-year-old Enchanted Jones is
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Tiffany D. Jackson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-302909-5
After being expelled from her Carmel, Calif., high school for drug use, Black former track star Marigold Anderson moves to Detroit-inspired Cedarville with her newly blended, interracial family. To get a new start and recoup the steep cost of Mari’s
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Tiffany D. Jackson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06302914-9
Jackson (White Smoke) skillfully explores internalized and externalized anti-Blackness in this striking horror novel, which channels Stephen King’s Carrie. Though Springfield, Ga., high school senior Maddy Washington is biracial (Black and white),...
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Tiffany D. Jackson, illus. by Reggie Brown. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-11025-6
In her accessibly written picture book debut, Jackson centers Deja, a Black child of Jamaican descent who asks myriad questions regarding Santa’s methods of reaching her city home. When classmates instill seeds of doubt, Deja worries about Santa’s...
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Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-31329-6
This fictionalized account, penned by Malcolm X’s daughter Shabazz (Betty Before X) with Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award winner Jackson (Grown), recounts how Malcolm Little, the 20-year-old young man who would become civil rights icon Malcolm...
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