Watch Us Rise

A stirring and unputdownable read about what it means to be a woman today. Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give and Moxie.

Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission. This year they plan to rock their school’s theatre and poetry clubs… until Chelsea realizes the poetry club isn’t interested in poems that matter, and Jasmine finds theatre club is just drama.

Sick of the way that young women are treated even at their ‘progressive’ New York City high school, they decide to start a new club, the Women’s Rights Club, dedicated to putting women’s ideas front and centre. Because art is never just art, and they know they can use art to say something, do something.

One problem - no one shows up. That hardly stops them. They start posting everything from videos of Chelsea performing her poetry to Jasmine's response to being reduced to a racist and sexist stereotype in the school's theatre department. And soon, they've gone viral, creating a platform they never could've predicted.

Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices – and the voices of other young women – to be heard. Watch them write their way into every future they can imagine.

Newbery Honor winner Renée Watson teams up with rock-star poet Ellen Hagan in this feminist anthem about two young women fighting to have their voices heard.

Renée has become a force to be reckoned with, garnering a glowing praise for the New York Times bestselling Piecing Me Together. This is Ellen's debut novel, but her poetry is renowned and brings life and energy to this story. Both Renée and Ellen's poetry - seen in Jasmine's and Chelsea's blog posts - is astounding. It is impossible not to be moved by their incredible words.