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Salt the Water

by Candice Iloh

Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 820L

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Why we'd hand it over

A precise, emotionally intelligent debut about a Black queer girl's summer of reckoning with family, identity, and the cost of hiding—literary without being preachy, heartbreaking without being melodramatic.

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