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Young Adult Fiction – Social Themes\nRELEASE DATE: 8\/1\/2023(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE )\nIn this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit in at his almost entirely-white Manhattan prep school, resulting in a fight and a plan for vengeance.This is not how seventeen-year-old Gil imagined beginning his senior yearon the subway dressed in a tie and khakis headed towards Manhattan instead of his old public school in Brooklyn. Augustin Prep may only be a borough away, but the exclusive private school feels like it’s a different world entirely compared to Gil’s predominately Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn.If it weren’t for the partial scholarship, the school’s robotic program and the chance for a better future, Gil wouldn’t have even considered going. Then after a racist run-in with the school’s golden boy on the first day ends in a fight that leavesonlyGil suspended, Gil understands the truth about his new schoolAugustin may pay lip service to diversity, but that isnt the same as truly accepting him and the other Black students as equal. But Gil intends to leave his mark on Augustin anyway.If the school isn’t going to carve out a space for him, he will carve it out for himself. Using Sun TzusThe Art of Waras his guide, Gil wages his own clandestine war against the racist administration, parents and students, and works with the other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard. But the more enmeshed Gil becomes in school politics, the more difficult it becomes to balance not only his life at home with his friends and family, but a possible new romance with a girl hed move mountains for. In the end, his war could cost him everything he wants the most.\nAUTHOR BIO:\nDon P. Hooper is a writer and filmmaker of Jamaican heritage (and a programmer in a former life). His short storyGot Me a Jet Packis part of theNew York Timesbestselling anthologyBlack Boy Joy. His directing work has been featured in the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, the New York Television Film Festival (award winner), the New York City Horror Film Festival, the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival (award winner), and more. He does voice-over in video games and documentaries.True Trueis his debut novel.\n In this compassionate debut,a love letter to Brooklyn and Caribbean culture, Hooper paints anorganic portrait of a Black teenagerwho feels caught between two different worlds. Gils determination to lift up his peers often results in him disregarding his own needs and wants; through hisearnestfirst-person POV and natural-feeling prose, Hooper presentsvaluablelessons on thehealing power of community, forgiveness, and sharing ones truth. Publishers Weekly, starred review
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