My Brother Sam Is Dead tells the story of the Tim Meeker and his family during the years of the American Revolutionary War. Published in 1974, the novel won many awards, including a Newbery Honor, an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book designation, and National Book Award nomination. James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, the authors, are brothers who together wrote a series of historical novels for young adults. James, a journalist, wrote most of... Read My Brother Sam Is Dead Summary

My Family Divided is a 2019 memoir written by Diane Guerrero and Erica Moroz, adapted for a youth audience from Guerrero’s 2016 adult memoir In the Country We Love: My Family Divided. It tells the story of Guerrero’s experiences in the US as the US-born child of undocumented immigrants from Colombia, especially focusing on the challenges she faced after her family was deported to Colombia when she was still a minor. Guerrero’s memoir stresses the... Read My Family Divided Summary

Contemporary American poet Mark Irwin’s narrative poem “My Father’s Hats” explores how memory, imagination, and knowledge shift over a person’s life.Published in 2000 by the New Letters literary magazine, “My Father’s Hats” acts as an elegy, a poetic mode used to mourn the dead or lament serious issues for a father. Irwin contrasts the certainty of childhood with the uncertainty of adulthood. A child can immerse himself in his imagination, thinking, “I was in a forest,” while... Read My Father's Hats Summary

Published in his 1992 collection Magic City, Yusef Komunyakaa’s narrative poem “My Father’s Love Letters” is based on the poet’s own experience writing love letters to his mother, who was estranged from the family due to her husband’s abuse, from his father, who could not write beyond his name. Through the words of the poem’s speaker, the poet explores the dynamics between father, mother, and son, and strives to illuminate the warring impulses within the... Read My Father's Love Letters Summary

Simon J. Ortiz originally published “My Father’s Song” in his poetry/story collection entitled A Good Journey (1977). Ortiz is a major writer in the Native American Renaissance, a movement which began in the 1960s and marked a significant increase in the production of literary works by Native Americans in the United States. The poem was written at a time when Ortiz was collecting and recounting stories from Indigenous tribes across the United States, and his... Read My Father's Song Summary

My Fault is a contemporary young adult romance novel by Mercedes Ron, an Argentinian-born, Spanish author. Ron originally published the book in Spanish in 2017 on the social media website Wattpad, and it has since been translated into over 10 languages and published in English as My Fault. The novel is the first installment in Ron’s Culpable series and incorporates the enemies to lovers and forced proximity romance tropes. The novel was adapted into the... Read My Fault Summary

“My Favorite Chaperone” is a short story written by Jean Davies Okimoto, a children’s and young adult (YA) literature author. It was published in 2004 in the anthology First Crossing, which collects short stories about the teen immigration experience. Like many of her stories, it explores cultural diversity, family dynamics, and coming of age. Alongside her short stories, Okimoto has published dozens of books and has won awards like the American Library Association's Best Books... Read My Favorite Chaperone Summary

My Favorite Half-Night Stand (2018) is a contemporary romance novel by Christina Lauren, the pen name of bestselling writing team Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. Known for popular works like The Unhoneymooners and The Soulmate Equation, the duo has established a significant presence in the romance genre. The novel follows a group of close-knit academic friends who make a pact to find dates for a university gala using an online dating app. The situation becomes... Read My Favorite Half-Night Stand Summary

Written by Emil Ferris and first published in 2015, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a fictional graphic novel based loosely on Ferris’s own childhood in 1960s Chicago. Before writing her first graphic novel, Ferris was a toy sculptor and illustrator. Writing My Favorite Thing Is Monsters acted as a form of therapy for Ferris as she recovered from a severe reaction to the West Nile Virus. Ferris had to make many sacrifices to create... Read My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Summary

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is a 2013 coming-of-age novel by Fredrik Bachman. The story follows Elsa, a seven-year-old girl with a penchant for grammar and deep affection for her grandmother, Granny, who dies from cancer. As Elsa discovers Granny’s past and the many lives she affected, she also learns more about Life and Death, Celebrating Differences, and the Complexity of Human Nature.Originally written in Swedish, My Grandmother Asked Me has... Read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Summary

My Life as a Book is a middle grade fiction and humor novel written by Janet Tashjian and originally published in 2010. The first of 11 books in the My Life series, the novel is illustrated by Tashjian’s son, Jake. Tashjian uses humor and the illustrations to make the novel more approachable to young, reluctant readers. My Life as a Book earned the 2011 Bank Street – Children’s Book of the Year award.This guide utilizes... Read My Life as a Book Summary

Idi Zoboi is the author of My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, which she published in 2019. An author of many other books for young readers that highlight the voices of people of color, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich focuses on an imaginative 12-year-old Black girl, Ebony-Grace, who loves outer space and superheroes but must spend a summer away from her beloved grandpa and live with her dad in New York City... Read My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich Summary

Recently adapted for Netflix, My Life with the Walter Boys, by Ali Novak, follows Jackie Howard, a driven and ambitious teenager from New York City whose life is upended when a tragic accident claims her family. Relocated to rural Colorado, she must adapt to life on a ranch with the Walter family—comprising 12 children—navigating grief, cultural shifts, and romantic entanglements, including an unexpected love triangle. This guide is based on the 2014 Kindle edition.Content Warning: This... Read My Life with the Walter Boys Summary

Beverly Willis Holt’s My Louisiana Sky (1998) is a coming-of-age story that follows Tiger Ann Parker through the summer that she turns 13. Set in the small rural town in 1957 Louisiana, the novel centers on Tiger’s decisions about growing up as she struggles with the death of her grandmother, her responsibilities to her parents who both have intellectual disabilities, and her relationship with her best friend.Holt’s novel carries themes of growing up, judgment, and... Read My Louisiana Sky Summary

My Lovely Wife (2019) is a thriller novel by Samantha Downing. The novel is narrated by an unnamed father of two teenagers who, along with his wife Millicent, plans a series of murders and pins them on Owen, a local serial killer from decades past. Although the couple begins their criminal activities together, over time, the secrets they have kept from each other begin to surface, threatening their own safety as well as their children’s... Read My Lovely Wife Summary

My Name is Emilia del Valle was published in 2025 and is Isabel Allende’s 23rd novel. The novel traces Emilia’s travels as an American journalist in Chile during the Chilean Civil War in 1891. Allende’s work is often centered around strong, independent female characters and elements of magical realism, both of which appear in My Name is Emilia del Valle. In the novel, Allende explores themes including The Effects of War Across Social and Economic... Read My Name Is Emilia del Valle Summary

Elizabeth Strout’s New York Times bestselling novel My Name is Lucy Barton follows the titular character on a journey of healing. Published in 2016, My Name is Lucy Barton explores the impact of trauma as Lucy navigates her reunion with her estranged mother. Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, My Name is Lucy Barton was adapted for the stage as a one-woman show featuring acclaimed actress Laura Linney in 2018 and 2020. Strout’s novel... Read My Name is Lucy Barton Summary

My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson is a novel within the young adult and historical fiction genres. This work explores the history of forced Native American assimilation by the larger government and society of the United States of America. It is split into four parts and divided into the first-person narratives of several different students. The novel setting is a fictional boarding school called Sacred Heart. My Name is Not Easy exposes... Read My Name Is Not Easy Summary

My Next Breath: A Memoir (2025) is a memoir by Jeremy Renner recounting a life-altering snowplow accident on New Year’s Day 2023. Renner chronicles his near-fatal accident, the extensive medical treatment that followed, and his methodical approach to physical and psychological rehabilitation. The memoir explores themes of The Importance of Information, Mastering Fear and Taking Action, and The Centrality of Love and Family, presenting recovery not as a return to normalcy but as an opportunity... Read My Next Breath Summary

My Return to the Walter Boys is a young adult romance novel originally published in 2025. It is the sequel to My Life With the Walter Boys, both of which were written by Ali Novak. My Return to the Walter Boys sees Jackie Howard returning to the Walter ranch, this time wiser and with history with the family. She and her love interest, Cole, enter a push-pull situation that eventually results in their reunion. Both... Read My Return to the Walter Boys Summary