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Burn
Patrick Ness
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0062869494
Keywords: racism; biracial families; Japanese-Americans; Japanese internment camps; Cold War; space race; Multiverse; Dragons; LGBTQ; multiple POV
In an alternate Cold War-era, racially intolerant Washington State, Sarah's father hires a dragon to work on their farm, unaware of an imminent threat from a dragon-worshipping cult.