Felix Yz

"Middle school and first crushes are hard enough to navigate without the added inconvenience of having an alien welded to your DNA, but such is Felix’s lot. All he really wants to do is get to know the boy he likes a little better, but looming over his head is an upcoming surgery that will either remove the rather sweet Zyx from his body or kill them both. Weaving together questions of gender expression, science fiction and just a smidgen of the old bildungsroman format to boot, Lisa Bunker plumbs the heart of what truly makes us human. (For ages 10 to 14)"