Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This weekâs theme is: Cover Freebie.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the schoolâs resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death.
With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesnât have enough time for her schoolâs new culinary arts class, doesnât have the money for the classâs trip to Spain â and shouldnât still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen.
Felix Love has never been in loveâand, yes, heâs painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what itâs like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. Whatâs worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that heâs one marginalization too manyâBlack, queer, and transgenderâto ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messagesâafter publicly posting Felixâs deadname alongside images of him before he transitionedâFelix comes up with a plan for revenge.
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing.
Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom’s borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution–send in Guinevere to be Arthur’s wife . . . and his protector from those who want to see the young king’s idyllic city fail. The catch? Guinevere’s real name–and her true identity–is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot.
Biggie Smalls was right. Things done changed. But that doesnât mean that Quadir and Jarrell are okay letting their best friend Stephâs tracks lie forgotten in his bedroom after heâs killedânot when his beats could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a celebration, not after years of having each otherâs backs. Enlisting the help of Stephâs younger sister, Jasmine, Quadir and Jarrell come up with a plan to promote Stephâs music under a new rap name: The Architect.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt. But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest.
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeerâs Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorceryâmagical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage releases the libraryâs most dangerous grimoire.
Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. She knows her life is forfeit if her secret is discovered, but she’ll take that risk to achieve her dream and save her family from ruin. There’s just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job.
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