Stevie’s back! Fans of The Deepest Breath will delight in an all-new verse novel as a slightly older Stevie and her friends Chloe and Andrew get ready to start secondary school. While there are plenty of opportunities for Stevie and Chloe to explore their identities, Andrew starts to withdraw from their friend group, and Stevie and Chloe have to figure out how to help him find his way back to them.
Anxious trans teen Clayton Noguchi has done a great job of avoiding his former best friend, popular swimmer Aron Santos – until they’re forced to team up in theatre class. With their worlds colliding, and Aron enthusiastically trying to reconnect, the pair grow close, and sparks start flying. Meanwhile, Clay’s letting his final year of school pass him by …
In the second, standalone book in the Faery Realms series, the fearsome Owl King is on the hunt for a new faery bride to steal magic from – and he chooses Ilsette’s sister Lyla. With Ilsette not welcome in the kingdom, she’s forced to travel to distant lands on a quest to find the Owl King’s feather and break his power in the hopes of saving Lyla from certain death.
Sixteen-year-old Morgana Merrick knows what it feels like to be treated as less-than. After arriving at Avalon Academy and quickly learning that she’ll need to become something special if she wants to stand out, she turns to magic to get everything she wants. But when her brother’s friend kisses her without her consent, Morgana wants to ruin him – and every person who refused to believe her.
Trans teens (and exes) Erin and Max have a plan: run away to California, where they’re guaranteed healthcare and won’t be at the mercy of either their state’s unfair laws, or Max’s family, who don’t accept him the way Erin’s family seems to. There’s just the problem of getting there. Though Max’s getaway vehicle should be road-worthy, they’re stranded in a rural village where more than just people live – and they don’t seem keen to let them go. With their lives in danger, Erin and Max must figure out a way to survive the night, let alone the rest of their lives …
Jay’s family are starting fresh after an incident at Jay’s old school, and that means no more skateboarding, no more boy’s clothes, and no more ‘tomboy phase’ – and what’s a person to do when their entire personality has been stripped away in the name of personal safety? This is a hilarious, thoughtful romantic comedy about gender, the importance of identity and of taking up space in the world, as well as a look at what, exactly, is at stake when someone will do anything to keep their loved ones happy.
