Jazmin's Notebook
by Nikki Grimes
Verse novel · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 700L · 102 pages · 2000
Why we'd hand it over
A quiet masterpiece — Nikki Grimes uses verse to let a 13-year-old Black girl in Harlem speak her own truth with unflinching honesty and grace; kids emerge seeing themselves and their own complexity mirrored.