What happens when someone sees you more clearly than you’ve ever seen yourself?

Alex Robertson spent eighteen years in a small Ohio town, perfecting the art of blending in. He’s the quiet one, the artist, the boy who never quite fit but never made waves about it. College is supposed to be his escape—a place to figure out who he is without...

Minnesota, 1997.

In the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, Kieran Lindstrom-seventeen and deaf-has always believed he’s too different to be loved. After what could have been the worst night of his life, Ryan Sullivan appears-and what begins as an act of kindness becomes something neither of them expected. In the aftermath, they’ll discover that...

Jason Reynolds has learned to make himself small.

In Connersville, Indiana, 1989, that’s how you survive when you’re different. Keep your head down. Don’t attract attention. Especially don’t talk about the dreams—two boys from another time, meeting in secret by lantern light, loving each other in a world that would destroy them for it.

Then Jason...