Balancing ACT: Balancing ACT

Chyna, a gymnast balancing her mother’s illness and a competitive team, and Jamaal, a basketball player determined to honor his late brother, navigate the pressures of pursuing their dreams at a new, prestigious sports charter school.

Co-founder of the award-winning blog, The Brown Bookshelf, PAULA CHASE is a longtime advocate for diversifying the type of fiction featuring Black characters. Chase is the author of nine critically acclaimed Upper Middle Grade and YA novels and a winner of NCTE’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) Konigsberg Award.