"Calling My Name is a treasure."--Nic Stone, New York Times-bestselling author of Dear Martin

Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self--ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.

This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.

Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.

--School Library Journal

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 09/04/2018
ISBN: 9780062656872
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 198646 / Calling My Name
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9