Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism She stretches her hands up

She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up

Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson writes a poignant young adult novel of deception

and kindness

early childhood education

Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism She stretches her hands up*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoirwinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal