Books written by Brendan Kiely

  • The Last True Love Story
    The Last True Love Story

    I pulled him to his feet, and he followed me out into the hall. Then he paused. “Wait.” He turned and shuffled into his room. “Gpa!” He came back out to the hall holding the newly framed photo of Gma and baby Dead Dad.

  • All American Boys
    All American Boys

    And I was actually daring to think that the day was going down much easier than I thought it would when I saw Dean Wyko walking down the hall between second and third periods. He stepped in front of me, one eyebrow raised, ...

  • Tradition
    Tradition

    I'd written it the right way, so that when they looked out the windows from the darkened hall, they'd see it ignited in the snow. My flaming script: the word “NO.” I stood for a moment, smoke curling around my legs and around the hem of ...

  • The Gospel of Winter
    The Gospel of Winter

    She pushed Mark and the girls into the hall as he was trying to say good-bye to me. “Just because your father's not here doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want,” she said to me. “Somebody should explain that to you.

  • All American Boys: Illustrated Edition
    All American Boys: Illustrated Edition

    I just wanted him to stop beating me.

  • Chicos típicamente americanos
    Chicos típicamente americanos

    Rashad hoy también está ausente.

  • All American Boys
    All American Boys

    When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.

  • The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
    The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege

    Black people and white people worked right alongside each other until 1913, when Woodrow Wilson's administration ended this by instituting racial segregation in government agencies: putting up dividers, creating different office spaces, ...

  • The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
    The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege

    Because not talking about racism doesn’t make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids.

  • The Last True Love Story
    The Last True Love Story

    "Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love"--

  • Tradition
    Tradition

    Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy. Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid distractions, and get into the right college, so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind.

  • The Gospel of Winter
    The Gospel of Winter

    The Gospel of Winter maps the ways love can be used as a weapon against the innocent—but can also, in the right hands, restore hope and even faith.

  • All American Boys
    All American Boys

    A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.

  • Gospel of Winter

    Gospel of Winter

  • All American Boys: Carnegie Medal-Winning Author
    All American Boys: Carnegie Medal-Winning Author

    A bag of chips.

  • All American Boys: The Illustrated Edition
    All American Boys: The Illustrated Edition

    The New York Times bestselling novel about police brutality in the US - now fully illustrated by Akhran Girmay.

  • The Gospel of Winter
    The Gospel of Winter

    Managing the challenges of his fractured family by taking Adderall, sneaking drinks, and confiding in an abusive priest, Aidan finds support from new friends including a crush, a wild girl, and a swim-team captain with his own secrets.