Penguin Random House 2024 National Book Award Winners

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion . . . [it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America

**WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Young People’s Literature**

This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates middle school.

“The exact type of book I would’ve loved, and needed, as a kid.”
— Jasmine Warga, New York Times bestselling author of and Newbery Honor recipient for Other Words for Home