Some summers change you quietly, before you ever have the words.Thirteen-year-old Jamie Grant is caught in between worlds. It is the summer before high school in Kansas City, Kansas, a season of heat, waiting, and becoming. To everyone else, Jamie is still a boy, following rules, keeping his head down, surviving the expectations placed on him. But inside, she knows her truth. Her real name, Jennifer, lives only in the pages of a new diary, written in careful strokes, hidden from a ...

Some truths refuse to stay hidden. Some names demand to be spoken.In the summer before high school, Jamie Grant learned how to survive by disappearing. She hid her true self, Jennifer, in journals, rituals, and fleeting moments of being seen. Now, in late August 1994 in Kansas, hiding is no longer enough.As high school begins, Jennifer is still Jamie to her family and the world, a trans girl carrying the weight of secrecy, gender identity, and family trauma. Her older siste...

History of this bestselling modern day Christmas classic…Perhaps best said by the former national director of Angel Tree: “The Special Guest is much more than just a well-written family story… it sprinkles the principles of forgiveness with the wonder that is Christmas”. A family dealing with a tragedy when an unexpected guest arrives for the holidays… A stranger who seems to have mysteriously stepped out of the past… A surprising chain of events that will teach the family about th...