The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Kelly inspired the novel, Grown also tackles the history of abuse of power and participating in rape culture pervasive in the entertainment industry, and how the systems in place specifically fail young Black women. Jackson says while the allegations against R. Her fourth novel, Grown, about a teenage singer getting her big break in the music industry and being targeted by a predatory rock star, was published in September 2020, by Katherine Tegen Books. It debuted to favorable reviews from critics, receiving starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. Jackson's third novel, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, set in 1998, is about three teens from Brooklyn who turn their late friend into a rap star and was published by Katherine Tegen Books in 2019. School Library Journal named Monday's Not Coming a best book of 2018. It was inspired by numerous disappearances of black girls all across the United States, which eventually led to the creation of the hashtag #MissingDCGirls. Monday's Not Coming received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. Her second young adult novel, Monday's Not Coming, about a girl whose best friend mysteriously disappears, was published in 2018 by Katherine Tegen Books. It was also on the Best YA of 2017 list of Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, NY Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Texas Library Association. Allegedly received several starred reviews and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Literary Work – Youth / Teens in 2017. Jackson conducted research for the novel by talking to lawyers, doctors, social workers, correctional officers, group home supervisors, and detectives, but still didn't find she obtained concrete answers as to how the criminal justice system works in the US, referring to how crimes are judged, regardless of the severity. Jackson's debut young adult novel Allegedly, about a teen who is accused of having murdered a baby when she was nine years old and finds out she is pregnant while living in a group home, was published by Katherine Tegen Books in 2017. Jackson attended Hendrick Hudson High School and Howard University, where she studied Film, and ultimately moved back to New York to obtain her master's degree in Media Studies from The New School University. She states that she first started wanting to become a writer when she was four years old. Jackson was born in New York and grew up in Brooklyn Heights. Jackson is a New York Times Bestselling American author of young adult fiction and a horror filmmaker, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated debut novel Allegedly. Howard University, The New School University Bachelor of Arts in Film, Master of Arts in Media Studies

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson