""A swoon worthy romance wrapped in courage, solidarity, and queer happiness!"-Mason Deaver, bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best
Unionizing his job wasn't on Eli Goldstein's summer bucket list-but neither was falling for his irritatingly self-righteous and handsome school rival. Sparks fly on the picket line in this hilarious, coming-of-age rom-com that's perfect for fans of Jason June, Page Powars, and A.M. Woody!
All's fair in love and solidarity...
Eli Goldstein might be the only teenager looking forward to earning minimum wage at his objectively terrible summer job. Not only will he be working at the kitschy roadside museum he loves, he'll finally have the down payment for his top surgery with a first-class surgeon.
But the museum really is a late-stage capitalist hellscape, and Eli's co-workers-led by his irritatingly self-righteous and annoyingly attractive school rival, Efraín-plan to unionize. With his sanity and safety at risk on the job, Eli knows he has to join their campaign.
If he and Efraín can stop bickering long enough to keep their ragtag union together, they might actually have a shot. But when management begins to grow suspicious, Eli will have to make a choice: Is he willing to stand in solidarity with his friends and the boy he's starting to fall for, even if it means risking his job and the key to his life-changing surgery?
- Labor Rights Summer Meets Rivals-to-Lovers: Eli came to collect a paycheck, not his morally supervisor classroom rival who looks ridiculously good yelling through a megaphone.
- Forced Proximity Meets Slow-Burn Romance: Working side by side (and arguing nonstop) at their summer job turns bickering into something deeper, whether Eli and Efraín are ready for it or not.
- Fall for the Boy, Fight the System: If Eli is risking everything to fight for his rights, he might as well risk his heart too."
"Red,
White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in
Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a
transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president
election against the wishes of his politician father.
Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark
knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still
pretends he has a daughter and not a son.
Mark has promised to keep his past
hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a
manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous
rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger.
The problem? No one really knows Mark. He didn’t grow up in this town, and his few friends are
all nerds. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know
where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover.
Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters—and even start a new romance.
But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to
silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to
decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as
dangerous.
“Mind-bogglingly good. This
is a novel that every teen needs.” —Kacen Callender, author of Felix Ever After
''Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer.'' —Mason Deaver, bestselling author of I Wish You
All the Best and The Ghosts We Keep"
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