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Title:
Salt the water
Summary:
Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they’ve got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system and live their dreams? Cerulean is truly brilliant, but their sheltered upbringing hasn’t prepared them for the consequences of their choice — especially not when it’s compounded by a family emergency that puts a parent out of work. Suddenly the money they’d been stacking with their friends is a resource that the family needs to stay afloat. Salt the Water is a book about dreaming in a world that has other plans for your time, your youth, and your future. It asks, what does it look like when a bunch of queer Black kids are allowed to dream? And what does it look like for them to confront the present circumstances of the people they love while still pursuing a wildly different future of their own? -- Amazon.
Audience:
Ages: 14-18. Dutton Books.

Grades: 9-12. Dutton Books.
Physical Description:
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher:
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
Publication Date:
2023
ISBN:
9780593529317
Publication Information:
New York : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.

©2023
Award Note:
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor, 2024
Call Number:
YA ILOH
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