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Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid

Ngozi Ukazu

Illustrator: Mad Rupert, colors by K Czap

Ages: 14+

Published: 2024

Publisher: First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-19352-0

Keywords: Coming-of-Age-ambitions, coming of age, education, humor, college art students, finanical aid, sports

When her scholarship unexpectedly falls through, Molly Bauer, a queer Black girl, discovers a loophole to afford her art school tuition: athletics. Colorful digital illustrations.