In Jandy Nelson's captivating new novel, the Fall siblings grapple with love, secrets, and their father's mysterious disappearance in Northern California. As they navigate personal struggles and the arrival of a mysterious girl, their intertwined stories reveal a complex family history and the hope of healing through shared narratives.
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Jandy Nelson crafts coming-of-age narratives brimming with potent emotion and a profound understanding of complex relationships. Her prose is lyrical and richly imagined, drawing readers deeply into her characters' worlds. Nelson explores themes of love, loss, family, and artistic expression with tenderness and authenticity. Her works celebrate the adolescent spirit and the powerful feelings that shape our lives.







- 2024
- 2017
Winner of the 2008 Scottish Book Awards. By turns thrilling and funny, DarkIsle is a vivid and fast-paced novel of captivating originality. Ten-year-old Morag is being held prisoner. When a dodo and a rat accidentally rescue her, she is drawn into their dangerous and life-threatening mission to retrieve an ancient stone used to protect their northern homeland. Taken by a renegade intent on harnessing its powers to a forbidding island somewhere off the coast, the three must find the one who can take them there. Morag's journey is perilous and dark forces are already afoot to stop her. Along the way she finds clues not only to the stone's whereabouts but also to the disappearance of her parents ten years before. The 1st book in the DarkIsle trilogy.
- 2017
Red Cloud
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Award-winning author S. D. Nelson brings to light one of the most controversial members of the Lakota tribe: Red Cloud
- 2016
I'll give you the sun is a story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah. Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways ... until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else--an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they'd have a chance to remake their world. The sky is everywhere is the story of a young girl's awakening to her own potential after the sudden death of her fiery, talented older sister, Bailey. From no experience of boys, Lennie finds herself trying to balance two. Toby, who had been Bailey's boyfriend is struggling with the grief that Lennie is feeling too. Joe is just the new boy in town. Ages 13+
- 2015
Sitting Bull
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
From award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson comes the amazing true story of Sitting Bull.
- 2014
Orphaned Morag and her friends--Shona the dragon, Bertie the dodo, and Aldiss the rat--are forced to face a powerful new threat. The battle for the DarkIsle of Murst must be won-- or Marnoch Mor itself will be lost
- 2014
"This is the big one - the BLAZING story of once inseparable twins whose lives are torn apart by tragedy." Entertainment Weekly Winner of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature From the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere, a radiant novel that will leave you laughing and crying - all at once. For fans of John Green, Gayle Forman and Lauren Oliver.Jude and her twin Noah were incredibly close - until a tragedy drove them apart, and now they are barely speaking. Then Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy as well as a captivating new mentor, both of whom may just need her as much as she needs them. What the twins don't realize is that each of them has only half the story and if they can just find their way back to one another, they have a chance to remake their world.
- 2010
The sky is everywhere
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Lennie Walker spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to centre stage of her own life and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two.