Retta Brooks is a fifteen-year-old starting actual school for the first time in her life. Her mother, being a paranoid worrier, homeschooled her until Retta finally convinced her mother to let her attend high school like a regular kid. The more she tries to fit...

Uglier explores the struggles and triumphs of Nic Summers, a young artist looking for a fresh start in a boarding school far from her conservative roots in Oklahoma City. In this second installment of The Art of Being Ugly series, Kelly Vincent explores the complexities...

Ugliest is the third book in The Art of Being Ugly series by Kelly Vincent. It's been a few months since Nic Summers, a seventeen-year-old from Emerson, Oklahoma, has come out as agender, and that has expectedly garnered the attention of a few bullies. Nic...