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Same Square,
New Names

A Stay on Your Square NOVELtrack

READ THE STORY. HEAR THE WORLD.

READ THE STORYMEET THE CHARACTERSHEAR THE WORLD

THE NOVEL TELLS THE STORY. THE NOVELtrack LETS YOU HEAR IT.

Same Square, New Names introduces another generation to a place built by the people who came before them. Room 3:19 becomes more than a classroom. It becomes a place where stories, identities, questions and music meet.

The NOVELtrack allows readers to hear that world.

THE OFFICIAL NOVELtrack · 08 TRACKS

Hear the world.

01
Stay on Your SquareOpening statementSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
2:45
02
Room 3:19Story + locationSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
4:32
03
Build People, Build the WorldMissionSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
4:47
04
Sade Olayemi DangoteCharacter · SadeSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
2:08
05
The Light Was Still OnEmotional storySame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
4:49
06
Who Gets To Stay?!IssueSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
4:39
07
Land Don’t Forget Your NameLegacySame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
6:22
08
Home Has More Than One AddressClosing statementSame Square, New Names — NOVELtrack
5:53

Stay on Your Square classroom and community artwork

Opening statement

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Stay on Your Square

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ENTER ROOM 3:19

Every dream needs
somewhere to begin.

A refuge. A creative laboratory. A meeting place. A launching point.

At Cesar Chavez Charter Academy (CCCA), the new generation turns an overlooked space into a place of possibility.

School: Performing Arts & Media Magnet
Home: East Durham, North Carolina
Motto: Courage. Culture. Community.
Mascot: Chavez Revolutionaries

Hear Room 3:19 Teach this song

MEET THE CHARACTERS

More than a name.

SAME SQUARE, NEW NAMES · TRACK 04

Sade Olayemi Dangote

Experience Sade as a person—not simply a character biography. Her original song is part of the world of Stay on Your Square.

Meet Sade

BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

A city. A memory. A place to stay.

Existing Durham community and courtroom artwork

Who gets to stay?

Why this song matters

Belonging, displacement and power meet in Durham’s changing neighborhoods. Housing and community ownership surround the students’ own questions about home.

Listen to track 06 →