Books like We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough

Steve Harmon, a sixteen‑year‑old charged as an accomplice to murder, records his prison and courtroom experiences as a film script while confronting his self‑perception and fate.

In a tense sixty seconds, a young boy faces a choice that will determine whether he seeks revenge for his brother’s death or walks away from violence.

In Harlem, Xiomara Batista learns to use her voice and verse to fight for herself and her dreams, turning lyrical poetry into her most powerful tool.

Jade dreams of escape from her rough neighborhood and seizes a scholarship to a predominantly‑white private school, but faces the challenges of fitting in and navigating mentorship programs aimed at at‑risk Black girls.

Matt Pin, a young Vietnamese adoptee in America, must confront a painful secret from his past two years after leaving war‑torn Vietnam, as new events force him to face the emotional aftermath of his flight.

All the Things We Never Said is a children's fiction book penned by Yasmin Rahman, a heartwarming narrative that invites young readers to explore unseen conversations and emotional growth.

Benny Imura and friends discover a false sanctuary and a scientist who may hold a cure for a zombie plague, while hostile reapers pursue the same secret to weaponize the undead.

Urgle, the youngest of the Ikkuma Pit brothers, leads his siblings on a perilous journey through a monster‑infested forest to rescue his missing brother Cubby.

Twins become internet sensations after posting a video of themselves bullying.

Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests—in the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples. In the 1830s Muscogee people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exile halfway across the continent. At the time, they were promised this new land would be theirs for as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. But that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee land, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a century later, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didn’t have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reservation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court settled the dispute. Its ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering almost half the land in Oklahoma, including Nagle’s own Cherokee Nation. Here Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance, By the Fire We Carry stands as a landmark work of American history. The story it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed and the Native-led battle for justice that has shaped our country. Source: [harpercollins.com](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138)