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Jevona N Maniex

What Holds

Jevona N Maniex

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English
Grace & Grit Books
10 April 2026
Sporting stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's&YA)
Series: Becoming
Some systems are meant to guide you. Some are meant to test you. And some reveal who you are when they begin to crack.

Fourteen-year-old twins Lei'Liana and Liam Morrison enter high school carrying different strengths, different pressures, and very different ways of moving through the world.

Lei'Liana is observant, artistic, and drawn to the details other people miss.

Liam finds steadiness in structure, repetition, and the hard logic of football.

At home, their family runs on love, routine, and carefully held systems. But once school begins, schedules tighten, expectations rise, and the quiet patterns that once held everything together begin to shift.

As the year unfolds, art rooms, practice fields, crowded hallways, and family dinners become places of testing and transformation.

Lei'Liana must decide whether she will keep creating what feels safe or trust the deeper truth of what she sees.

Liam must learn that discipline is more than talent and performance, and that growth requires patience under pressure.

Moving through the same school in different ways, both siblings face changing friendships, rising expectations, and the growing realization that becoming yourself can unsettle everything you thought would hold.

Told through dual perspectives, What Holds is a character-driven young adult coming-of-age novel about family, identity, ambition, creativity, resilience, sibling bonds, emotional growth, and the weight of expectation.

Thoughtful, atmospheric, and emotionally layered, this first book in The Becoming Series is ideal for readers of contemporary YA fiction who love stories about high school transition, football, art, family dynamics, and self-discovery.

What Holds is a powerful novel of pressure, perception, and becoming and a moving exploration of what remains when certainty gives way to growth.
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Imprint:   Grace & Grit Books
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   177g
ISBN:   9798295764271
Series:   Becoming
Pages:   138
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

JeVona Maniex, PhD, is an author, publisher, and Industrial-Organizational Psychologist whose work explores identity, resilience, emotional growth, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. She writes across genres, including young adult fiction, children's literature, and inspirational works, creating stories that are thoughtful, emotionally layered, and grounded in truth. She is the author of What Holds and the founder of Grace & Grit Books LLC.

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