Fantastic YA Pride

Queer YA Sizzles with Magic and Secrets!

Enchant your teen reader with bold characters and fiery plots, featuring twist after addicting twist!

Our Pride round-up continues with fantastic YA by some amazing new voices. Tune in for an unforgettable discussion!

• A sensitive film photographer uses her art to unravel complicated family ties and trans love in RAY STOEVE's Arden Gray
  
  
• In MAYA MACGREGOR's The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, local ghosts taunt the new kid in town, who uncovers mysteries, and wonders – is he a ghost too? 
  
  
• Mutant powers rock Dylan's high school life in The Temperature of Me and You by BRIAN ZEPKA, where he helps a mysterious crush overcome dark forces. 
  
  
• Always on the run, Hannah inherits strange powers as she confronts her family's past during the Holocaust in From Dust, a Flame by REBECCA PODOS – and learns what it takes to survive in the present
  
  
• In REBECCA KIM WELLS' Briar Girls, Lena hides a secret – the touch her skin can kill. After a devastating mistake she and her father are forced to flee to a mysterious forest with a deadly reputation... 

Thursday, June 23rd at 6:00PM EST via Crowdcast.

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