July is Disability Pride Month! A DRAGONBIRD IN THE FERN by @laura_rueckert_writes is an immersive, IPPY Award-winning YA fantasy featuring a heroine with dyslexia 💙 Available now!
Synopsis:
When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved ones until the murderer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s betrothed arrives and requests that seventeen-year-old Jiara take her sister’s place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries.
Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his distant home is distressing enough, but with dyslexia and years of scholarly struggles, Jiara abandoned any hope of learning other languages long ago. She’s terrified of life in a foreign land where she’ll be unable to communicate.
Then Jiara discovers evidence that her sister’s assassin comes from the king’s own country. If she marries the king, Jiara can hunt the murderer and release her family from Scilla’s ghost, whose thirst for blood mounts every day. To save her family, Jiara must find her sister’s killer . . . before he murders her too.
Today we’re featuring @theadamsass’s SURRENDER YOUR SONS. This LGBTQ+ YA thriller has received several awards, but was most recently named a 2022 ALA Rainbow List Selection. ❤️🔥
Synopsis: Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare.
His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.”
But Connor’s troubles are only beginning. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide—from the campers to the “converted” staff and cagey camp director—and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. But first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are—and taking this place down.
This pride month, check out author @charles_a_bush’s EVERY VARIABLE OF US, a poignant, queer, coming-of-age debut 💗✨
Synopsis: After Philly teenager Alexis Duncan is injured in a gang shooting, her dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish in an instant. To avoid becoming another Black teen trapped in her poverty-stricken neighborhood, she shifts her focus to the school’s STEM team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own college scholarships.
Academics have never been her thing, but Alexis is freshly motivated by Aamani Chakrabarti, the new Indian student who becomes her friend (and crush?). Alexis begins to see herself as so much more than an athlete. But just as her future starts to reform, Alexis’s own doubts and old loyalties pull her back into harm’s way.
Wishing our LGBTQIA+ readers a happy pride month 🌈✨ Today we’re featuring BEFORE WE WERE BLUE by @ej.schwartz. Readers in search of sapphic and asexual representation should check out this YA contemporary debut 💙
Synopsis: In a treatment center for eating disorders, teenagers Shoshana and Rowan develop an intense, sometimes destructive connection. Ultimately, the girls will have to make a choice: get healthy on their own—or stay sick together.
GIVEAWAY: GAME OF STRENGTH AND STORM is almost here!! Want to win a copy of this fierce, gender-bent Hercules retelling?
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GIVEAWAY: EVERY VARIABLE OF US is almost here!! Want to win a copy of this powerful YA debut?
Here’s how:
1) Follow @fluxbooks and @charles_a_bush
2) Like this post
3) Tag a friend in the comments!
US only, open till 11:59 PT 2/14 to win 1 of 2 copies.
Thanks for all the love for A DRAGONBIRD AND THE FERN! Have you finished it yet? What did you think?!
A Dragonbird in the Fern Trailer
A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Rueckert - Author arrives August 3, 2021: https://fluxnow.com/product/a-dragonbird-in-the-fern/
When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved ones until the murderer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s betrothed arrives and requests that seventeen-year-old Jiara take her sister’s place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries.
Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his distant home are distressing enough, but with dyslexia and years of scholarly struggles, Jiara abandoned any hope of learning other languages long ago. She’s terrified of life in a foreign land where she’ll be unable to communicate.
Then Jiara discovers evidence that her sister’s assassin came from the king’s own country. If she marries the king, Jiara can hunt the murderer and release her family from Scilla’s ghost, whose thirst for blood mounts every day. To save her family, Jiara must find her sister’s killer . . . before he murders her too.
