The Day You Begin Cover:Hardcover • 2019 Publishers Weekly Best

• 2019 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year long-listed

Though he only briefly attended school and was largely self-taught

Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor

and reveal her true destiny

‘I am no longer yours

The Day You Begin Cover:Hardcover • 2019 Publishers Weekly BestA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lpez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are