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  • Published: 26 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593554128
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

In the Key of Us

  • Mariama J. Lockington


From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama J. Lockington, comes a coming-of-age story surrounding the losses that threaten to break us and the friendships that make us whole again.

Thirteen-year-old Andi feels stranded after the loss of her mother, the artist who swept color onto Andi’s blank canvas. When she is accepted to a music camp, Andi finds herself struggling to play her trumpet like she used to before her whole world changed. Meanwhile, Zora, a returning camper, is exhausted trying to please her parents, who are determined to make her a flute prodigy, even though she secretly has a dancer’s heart.

At Harmony Music Camp, Zora and Andi are the only two Black girls in a sea of mostly white faces. In kayaks and creaky cabins, the two begin to connect, unraveling their loss, insecurities, and hopes for the future. And as they struggle to figure out who they really are, they may just come to realize who they really need: each other.

In the Key of Us is a lyrical ode to music camp, the rush of first love, and the power of one life-changing summer.

  • Published: 26 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593554128
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Praise for In the Key of Us

Praise for IN THE KEY OF US:
"Warm and poetic, this gentle and emotional story of first love between two complicated and dynamic young girls completely captured my heart.” -Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor Award-winning author of Other Words For Home and The Shape of Thunder

“Lockington’s lyrical writing is tender and masterful. IN THE KEY OF US captures the many ways growing up is hard, exhilarating, unpredictable, and beautiful. Here, there is no pretense that life is easy but there is promise that there can be second chances, healing, and so much love.” -Renée Watson, New York Times Bestselling Author