Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by
author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and
takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic
institutions in America.
In ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, two Black young men attend prestigious schools
nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of
insidious racism.
In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination,
Kevin joins a protest that shuts down his Ivy League campus...
In September 1995, amidst controversy over the Million Man March, Gibran
challenges the "See No Color" hypocrisy of his prestigious New England
prep school...
As the two students, whose lives overlap in powerful ways, risk losing
the opportunities their parents worked hard to provide, they move closer
to discovering who they want to be instead of accepting as fact who
society and family tell them they are.