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Like Leah, she deserved far better, but I'm not her accountant, and there is no accounting for the choices free souls make Within days, Cal and his parents have moved from Cal’s beloved Brooklyn to Houston, and along the way, become the center of a media frenzy surrounding the upcoming launch. They have a lot in common, Mithrun is a war veteran, Kabru is a war orphan, but can they really help each other when they’re also so different? A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen’s journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo.
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Until a fake dating ploy gives them new perspective, and they realize that “falling for your enemy” isn’t as impossible as it seems.
One of the main characters at least has a close partenarship (may they be friends, lovers, master-student or parent-child) with members of another classical occidental fantasy race (humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits, gnomes, sprites, pixies, unicorns, dragons, trolls, goblins, orcs, merfolk, selkies, etc). Sasha Johnson-Sun might not know everything–like how to fully heal after her dad’s passing or how many more Saturdays her mom can spend cleaning houses. After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first game since their break up, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, the incredibly beautiful and incredibly mean Irene Abraham. Elizabeth Murry and her mother is moving to Georgia to live with her grandmother, she befriends a redneck, but his brother is not the biggest fan.
Will Garrus' father be able to resist the legendary Shepard, or will the Commander get a new notch in her belt. Sonia can’t let that happen—her sister is undocumented, and the girls have been flying under the radar since their mother was deported back to Mumbai. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they’ve made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better.