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Out of the Blue

by Sophie Cameron

Ages: 14+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-14991-6

Keywords: LGBTQ, Diversity, Survivor's guilt, Parental death

Winged humanoid Beings fall from the sky to their deaths; media frenzies and cults erupt. Jaya, whose life is already complicated, discovers a fallen Being alive.