National Book Award winner Woodson–the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature–and two-time Pura BelprZ Illustrator Award winner L–pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even while feeling scared and alone. Full color.l color.A #1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER!

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National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lpez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

There will be times when you walk into a room
and no one there is quite like you.

There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.

Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael Lpez’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.