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Meg & Linus

by Hanna Nowinski

Ages: 14+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Swoon Reads/Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-09860-3

Keywords: Romance, Coming out, Diversity, LGBTQ

Meg can't handle the breakup with her girlfriend, and Linus can't find courage to ask out the new boy at school. Can these situations go from hopeless to hopeful?