June must do everything she can to save her and her friends from the zombies, relying on the skills she has learned as such an avid fan.

Before they know it, chaos breaks out and June discovers that it’s because real zombies are taking over ZombieCon. When they arrive, however, some of the fans are acting a bit off. When she and her two best friends head to ZombieCon to meet him and other prominent actors from zombie-themed films, she is ecstatic. June has been obsessed with zombie films her whole life, especially a zombie apocalypse show called Human Wasteland and its dreamy lead character. Girls Save the World in This One-Ash Parsons. This is the kind of sweet magic we should be putting on our screens. What I especially love about this book, however, isn’t simply that the author raises these issues, but that they show a possible world where they find people who love them and those who were previously opposed grow to become accepting. The author of Cemetery Boys and all of the main characters are a part of the LGBTQ+ community, so the audience is made aware of real issues that far too many of them face, including homelessness and rejection by their family. It isn’t the kind of story that awkwardly sticks a gay best friend in the corner as an afterthought. Besides that fact that it would be visually appealing, this book has LGBTQ+ representation written literally everywhere. There are far too many neutral tones and darkness in television, but this book would take something that could be darkly lit and place pops of color and life everywhere. This entire book is set to the backdrop of magic and colorful imagery, which I imagine people in the film industry would trip over to create. As the novel unfolds, the characters work to solve a mystery, an adorable love story takes place, and we grapple with the question of what a family truly is. After this, Yadriel goes to find the ghost that murdered his cousin, but in the process, he accidentally summons the spirit of Julian Diaz, one of his classmates. Yadriel, who was assigned the biological sex of female at birth, wants to prove that he is actually a young man by performing this ritual.

When young brujos and brujas in the community come of age, they perform a ritual to gain their powers, which differentiate based upon gender. Brujx is the all-encompassing word for a community of brujos and brujas, which is a Spanish word generally translated as a sorcerer. Cemetery Boys follows Yadriel, a young transgender boy born into a Latinx family of the brujx community in East Los Angeles.

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