Same Square, New Names
A new generation enters a legacy built by students and community in East Durham.
Not currently listed for saleOriginal fiction & connected worldsStories worth
Stories worth
staying for.
The people, places, music, and choices that make a community. Explore the Stay on Your Square universe and the stories that came before it.
Featured seriesStay on
Stay on
Your Square.
At Cesar Chavez Charter Academy in East Durham, original voices become a movement across generations.
Built around culture, courage, community, and what it means to tell your own story. The series follows the first class and a new generation returning to the same square.
Durham, NCIntergenerational fictionMusic & media
The modern generationStay on Your Square / 2026–2027 Stay on Your Square / 2027–2028 Stay on Your Square / 2028–2029 Stay on Your Square / 2029–2030 Stay on Your Square / 2030–2031
Explore the books.
These titles are part of the series development and publication program. Purchase links will appear when editions are available.
The Response
A modern generation learns how to respond when culture, technology, and institutional power meet.
Not currently listed for saleThe City
A story about Durham, place, housing, memory, and who gets to belong.
Not currently listed for saleThe Law
Students confront evidence, rights, housing, and the practical meaning of justice.
Not currently listed for saleThe Record
Archives, testimony, consent, and the question of who controls what history can prove.
Not currently listed for saleBefore there was Square OneOrigins
Origins
of Unc.
A connected story of family, survival, and the roads that eventually lead Jerome “Unc” Nelson to Durham.
Set across early-1990s Baltimore and beyond, this companion story adds depth to the Stay on Your Square universe.
In development · Not yet for sale
Books meet music
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Discover the music catalog and the developing soundtrack projects inspired by these novels.