Graduation from high school?
A senior thesis?
A betrayal by someone you love?
A loss of innocence?
The death of a parent?
Losing the family you always wished you had?
Facing a harsh reality?
What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"? And what happens when it's nothing you imagined it would be?
Do you want to be a published author?
The editors at HarperCollins invite you to submit a short story about a character who has to face the "real world" for the first time. The story must involve a single, life-changing event. First prize is the opportunity to be published alongside your favorite authors in the paperback edition of the No Such Thing as the Real World collection. All stories must be between 5,000 and 10,000 words long, and all contributing authors must be between fourteen and nineteen years old.

No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life

Literature & Fiction

Kephart, Beth

Lynch, Chris

NA, AN

Anderson, M.T.

Going, K.L.

WOODSON, Jacqueline

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperTeen

Guys Read: The Sports Pages (Guys Read, 3)

The Sports Pages, the third volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, features ten short stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate.
From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are a collection of stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field.
Authors include Dustin Brown, James Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Chris Crutcher, Tim Green, Dan Gutman, Gordon Korman, Chris Rylander, Anne Ursu, and Jacqueline Woodson, with illustrations by Dan Santat.

Children's Books

Rylander, Chris

Green, Tim

Gutman, Dan

Scieszka, Jon

Ursu, Anne

Korman, Gordon

BRUCHAC, Joseph

Walden Pond Press

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller 
A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.
But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. 
Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

Another Brooklyn: A Moving Coming-of-Age Novel of Friendship and Memories Set in the Heart of Brooklyn

United States

Amistad

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller 
A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017
A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 2017
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.
But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. 
Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

Having lost his parents in a fire and been placed in a foster home away from his little sister, Lili, Lonnie is forced to adjust to his new surroundings while coping with his loss on his own, thus, with the encouragement and help of a special teacher, he turns to poetry to help him express his feelings and make sense of it all. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Reprint.

Locomotion

Speak

After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

Behind You

Teen & Young Adult

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book &amp; ALA Notable Book. Simultaneous.

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

Hush

If You Come Softly

Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is Black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.

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Books by WOODSON, Jacqueline

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No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life

Guys Read: The Sports Pages (Guys Read, 3)

Guys Read: The Sports Pages (Guys Read, 3)

Another Brooklyn: A Moving Coming-of-Age Novel of Friendship and Memories Set in the Heart of Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn: A Moving Coming-of-Age Novel of Friendship and Memories Set in the Heart of Brooklyn

Locomotion

Behind You

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Hush

If You Come Softly