Yonder Major Tom Schueman winner of the Tomas Rivera

winner of the Tomas Rivera Book Award in the Young Adult category

quieter truth that we too often miss in the mayhem

and it would culminate in a night of mayhem—one poised to unravel all that he had built

and turned to war in attempt to build a meaningful future

and Geneva is back in the game

Yonder Major Tom Schueman winner of the Tomas RiveraThe Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid 19th century. They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it werent saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William