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Also by Lisa Roberts Carter:

If You Knew My Name, June 2024
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If You Knew My Name
Lisa Roberts Carter

Central Avenue Publishing
June 2024
On Sale: May 28, 2024
Featuring: Mason Zy’Aire Tyndall
272 pages
ISBN: 1771683600
EAN: 9781771683609
Kindle: B0C2QS4S7Z
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Fantasy Urban

Lisa Roberts Carter’s debut, If You Knew My Name, is a novel-in-verse telling the story of 17-year-old Mason Tyndall— an aspiring rap artist whose mother is a BLM activist. She saw fatal officer-involved shootings as senseless tragedies. He viewed them as trending hashtags — that is, until he almost became one.

Mason Zy’Aire Tyndall has big dreams. Dreams of sick beats, epic mic-drops, sold out stadiums. Mason’s going to be a rap star—and you don’t become a rap star by hitting up BLM protests with your mom or sitting at a desk. Mason wants to get out there and make a name for himself, but he’ll have to graduate high school first. And he can’t do that if he fails his senior year.

Convinced his poetry class is a waste of time, Mason’s teacher helps him see just how valuable a couplet and a rhyme can be. But when an unarmed Black man is killed by the police in his city, tensions start to rise—among the cops, the community, and even Mason’s peers. 

Caught in the middle of increasingly violent conflicts, Mason will have to find a way to use his voice for change…and fast. 

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