Calling My Name

By Liara Tamani

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062656864
• ISBN13: 9780062656865
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher