Ilanah Cami-Goursolas

Lyes is ripped away from the foster mother who'd raised him since he was a baby and hoped to adopt him. He gets thrown into the violent world of group homes.

Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.