Cemetery Boys

Yadriel is a trans boy from a Mexican American brujo family — he can summon the dead, but his family won't perform the ritual that would confirm his power because they still see him as a girl. When he summons the ghost of the school's most notorious bad boy to prove himself, the ghost refuses to leave. Thomas writes Latinx brujo mythology and trans identity with equal warmth and specificity — neither is a metaphor for the other, both are simply true. A romance, a mystery, a ghost story, and a book about a trans boy fighting to be recognized by the people who are supposed to love him. Joyful and necessary in equal measure.