Ways to Grow Love

Ryan Hart Series

Author: Renée Watson

Illustrator: Niña Mata

Book 2 in the Ryan Hart series

Pages: 192

Published: 2021

Age: 7+

Ryan Hart loves her family and friends. She's looking forward to summer vacation, spending time with loved ones, and her first trip to sleepaway camp! But when an unexpected camper shows up, Ryan finds it's hard to share your best friend and harder to be a friend to someone who isn't a good friend to you. She's also waiting for her new sister to be born—and hoping the baby doesn't ruin everything.

The Hart family is experiencing a lot of changes, and Ryan needs to grow her patience in many ways, find ways to share the love, meet new challenges, and grow into the leader her mom and dad named her to be. This summer and the start of fifth grade just might give Ryan the chance to show how she grows and glows!

About the Ryan Hart Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Ways to Make Sunshine(2020)
  2. 2.Ways to Grow Love(2021)
  3. 3.Ways to Share Joy(2022)
  4. 4.Ways to Build Dreams(2023)

Reading age: 7+ years

This series should be read in order.

From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine.

Ryan is all about trying to see the best in people, to be a good daughter, a good sister, a good friend. But even if her life isn't everything she would wish for, when her big brother is infuriating, her parents don't quite understand, and the unexpected happens, she always finds a way forward, with grace and wit. And plenty of sunshine.

Acclaimed author Renée Watson writes her own version of Ramona Quimby, one starring a Black girl and her family, in this charming new series.