Cemetery Boys

Name: Cemetery Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
ISBN: 9781250250469

by Aiden Thomas

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's New York Times-bestselling paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking." Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true 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 school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death.…

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"In Yadriel’s family, men guide the spirits of the dead, while women heal the living. So how can this young trans man prove himself to his traditionally minded relatives? Summon a ghost, of course. Except that when Yadriel tries to find and free the ghost of his murdered cousin, he ends up with the spirit of snarky, troubled bad boy Julian. Yadriel can’t get rid of him – Julian is somehow bound to this world – but does Yadriel even want to? Cemetery Boys grapples with serious issues of identity and acceptance (and it has a couple of real scares), but at heart it’s a sweet, hopeful story of a tightknit family, a first love – and a hot ghost."

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