An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance.
Content Note
Foreword / by Lamar Giles -- Eraser tattoo / by Jason Reynolds -- Meet cute / by Malinda Lo -- Don't pass me by / by Eric Gansworth -- Be cool for once / by Aminah Mae Safi -- Tags / by Walter Dean Myers -- Why I learned to cook / by Sara Farizan -- A stranger at the Bochinche / by Daniel JoseÌ Older -- A boy's duty / by Sharon G. Flake -- One voice: a something in-between story / by Melissa de la Cruz -- Paladin/Samurai / by Gene Luen Yang, with illustrations by Thien Pham -- Catch, pull, drive / by Schuyler Bailar -- Super human / by Nicola Yoon.