" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York.

Solemn remains trapped by connections to the missing other woman and an honest cop who suspects more to the story than others on the small local police force want to see.

In the same vein of Kalisha Buckhanon’s critically-acclaimed debut novel Upstate, again she shares an emotionally beautiful story about today’s youth that magnifies the unforgettable power of hope and the human spirit.

A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon. ST . MARTIN'S GRIFFIN TEACHER'S GUIDE Accelerated Reader Upstate A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon " Wild and beautiful ... This story is told using the epistolary form with a brilliant skill not seen since The ...

The perfect book for fans of Josie Silver, This Time Next Year, and anyone who ever fell in love with the wrong person... ‘Gorgeously festive and romantic’ Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call

"This stunning book is the story I've been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power.” --Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak "An extraordinary ...

On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe.

A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon. SPEAKING OF SUMMER Copyright © 2019 by Kalisha Buckhanon First hardcover edition : 2019 First paperback edition : 2020 All rights reserved under International and Pan - American Copyright Conventions . No part ...

Opportunity knocks one hot summer day when fly-girl Naleejah struts her stuff straight up to Kate and takes a seat.

Remember Me to Miss Louisa, among other things, moves the life of the fancy girl from New Orleans, where it is typically situated, to the Midwest.