MAY 2025
COME HOME
TO MY HEART
Gloria Forman and Xia Harper go to the same high school in a small South Carolina town, but they couldn’t be more different. While Gloria is part of the popular, Christian crowd, Xia sleeps through class, antagonizes anyone who dares talk to her, and buries herself in books that help her pretend she’s somewhere else—anywhere that being lesbian wouldn’t be a waking nightmare.
When the two form an accidental friendship, they begin noticing each other in ways they promised themselves they’d avoid. After all, Xia’s isolation is self-imposed for a reason, and the last thing Gloria needs is more upheaval, especially after her parents kicked her out of the house for being gay. Ever since, she has spent her nights under the stage in the school auditorium and her days terrified of being discovered.
Xia just wants to keep her head down until the end of senior year. Gloria just wants to keep her living situation quiet until her parents come around. But as their feelings for each other intensify and the truths they’ve hidden work their way to the surface, what they truly want will change forever.
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Published by Union Square Books
Part of the royalties from this novel will be donated to the following organizations:
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Covenant House, which provides housing and support services to youth facing homelessness, operating across six countries. https://www.covenanthouse.org/
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The Relatives, a support center for homeless and at-risk youth in my home state of North Carolina. https://therelatives.org/
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North Star, an LGBTQ community center serving my hometown—Winston-Salem, North Carolina—and surrounding areas.
https://www.northstarwsnc.org
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The Harriet Hancock Center in Columbia, South Carolina, which provides support and services to the LGBTQ+ community in the Midlands. http://harriethancockcenter.org/
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The Night Ministry, a housing support organization in Chicago which operates The Crib, an emergency shelter for young adults ages 18 to 24, recognized for being an LGBTQ safe space.
https://www.thenightministry.org/
APRIL 2022
ALONE OUT HERE
The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up.
While the world’s leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape the planet.
This is the new world: a starship loaded with a catalog of human artifacts, a frozen menagerie of animal DNA, and fifty-three terrified survivors. From the panic arises a coalition of leaders, spearheaded by the pilot’s enigmatic daughter, Eli, who takes the wheel in their hunt for a habitable planet. But as isolation presses in, their uneasy peace begins to fracture. The struggle for control will mean the difference between survival and oblivion, and Leigh must decide whether to stand on the side of the mission or of her own humanity.
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Published by Disney Hyperion
Urgently driven by its desperate characters and flecked with hope despite its bleakness, this is a study of extremes that will linger with its readers.
— ★ Booklist, starred review
A gripping post-apocalyptic survival story featuring a multinational cast and just the right amount of introspection.
— ★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A haunting sci-fi tale that fearlessly explores the moral questions prompted by its high-stakes plot.
— ★ Bookpage, starred review
Gripping ... Redgate skillfully ups the tension, offering an in-depth exploration of grief and trauma while depicting the slow disintegration of morale and societal breakdown within the ship's tiny community.
—Publishers Weekly
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Booklist Editors' Choice 2022
ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers 2023
ALA Top 10 Pick for Youth SF/F
YALSA Selection: 2023 Hal Clement List for Excellence in Young Adult Science Fiction
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2023
Cooperative Children's Book Center Best Book of 2023
It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: she has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody’s falling over themselves to express their appreciation. So it’s no surprise when she gets shut out of the fall musical for the third year straight.
Then the school gets a mass email. A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters, Kensington's elite a cappella octet. Worshiped ... revered ... all male. Desperate to prove herself, Jordan auditions in her most convincing drag, and it turns out that Jordan Sun, Tenor 1, is exactly what the Sharps are looking for.
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Published by Abrams/Amulet
[This] bright, determined heroine possesses a singular voice that will be invaluable for new generations.
— ★ Booklist, starred review
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A heart song for all readers who have ever felt like strangers in their own skins.
— ★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Redgate's second novel superbly probes identity, privilege and community in a humorous plot of high school growing pains. Like her visual arts students at Kensington, Redgate crafts her characters with delicate lines and strong shadows within a phase of life that is anything but gentle. Noteworthy is a five-star performance, deserving of a standing ovation.
— ★ Shelf Awareness, starred review​
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A Junior Library Guild Spring 2017 Selection
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017
A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2017
Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely doesn’t sneak into the 21-and-over clubs on the Lower East Side. The only sort of risk Laila enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before graduation, Laila’s number one fan is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who sees nothing at all special about Laila’s writing.
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A growing obsession with gaining Nazarenko’s approval—and fixing her first-ever failing grade—leads to a series of unexpected adventures. Soon Laila is discovering the psychedelic highs and perilous lows of nightlife, and the beauty of temporary flings and ambiguity. But with her sanity and happiness on the line, Laila must figure out if enduring the unendurable really is the only way to greatness.
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Published by Abrams/Amulet
This is a gorgeous novel with diverse characters of different ethnicities and sexualities that are true to life in their messiness and earnest missteps. ... Final Draft hits every mark: A must-read.
— ★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Redgate's layered, perceptive third novel ... eloquently unpacks the meaning of "revision," a word that tends to make young writers — and not-so-young writers — squirm.
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An intensely focused portrait of a girl who, through first love and first loss, begins to find the story she wants to tell. For many cautious teens, watching Laila come into her own will be a triumph.
—Booklist
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Deliciously elevated by its emotional depth and Redgate’s snarky prose ... a must-have for high school libraries.
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A Junior Library Guild Fall 2018 Selection
A Bank Street Book of the Year 2019
MARCH 2016
SEVEN WAYS
WE LIE
Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. And like every high school, every student has something to hide—from Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage, to Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal.
When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame. For the seven unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change.
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Published by Abrams/Amulet
Cover design by Maria Middleton
Redgate writes with much insight into the complicated world of contemporary high school, revealing both its hard edges and its tender underbelly. By book's end, readers will feel like they have seven new friends.
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Redgate is certainly a writer to watch. A truthful take on the raw, messy, awkward lives of teenagers.
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Engaging and raw and real...a realistic contemporary YA delight.
—Book Riot, "The Best Books of 2016...So Far"
FIND SEVEN WAYS ON . . .
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AUGUST 2023
LOOK NO FURTHER
The Parent Trap meets The Vanishing Half in Rioghnach Robinson and Siofra Robinson’s Look No Further, a gripping YA novel about estranged siblings who meet for the first time at art camp and confront their differing experiences of race and identity.
When 17-year-old Niko and 15-year-old Ali meet at Ogilvy Summer Art Institute, a selective camp for art students in New York City, they seem like complete opposites. Ali comes across as standoffish to laid-back Niko, who feels like a fish out of water surrounded by so many type-A peers. So when a teacher assigns them as pairs for a genealogy project, Ali and Niko are shocked to find they have a lot more in common than they bargained for.
As the pair embark on a quest to uncover their shared history, Ali finds herself falling for her roommate—who may have already fallen for another girl at Ogilvy—and surfer-bro Niko struggles to find his footing in the glamorous NYC art scene. Soon they’re both questioning their preconceptions about the world and each other. But only when they face real heartbreak can they accept the most transformative revelation of the best art is what you make, not just what you see.
Published by Abrams/Amulet
The Robinson authors, siblings, approach the experience of identifying with multiple cultures ... in a simultaneously messy and multifaceted manner, organically building toward hard-earned and affecting self-revelations and making for an emotionally resonant collaboration.
— ★ Publishers Weekly, starred review
The authors paint a beautifully descriptive and vibrant world inhabited by endearing and relatable characters that readers cannot help but cheer for.
— School Library Journal
[T]he character development is refreshingly deep. Niko and Ali both mature, grow, and share tender and brutal truths. This engaging story sensitively explores biracial experiences, family, and self-expression.
—Kirkus Reviews
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