Burro Hills

-YA debut standalone from a highly engaged debut author-LGBT main character taps into the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement-Tackles the important subject of Toxic Masculinity in a new way -- not just addressing the damage of misogyny on girls, but also examining the damage to boy-The strong voice and gritty subject matter will appeal to an older YA audience who devours books like Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, Benjamin Alire Saenz's The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, and Kody Keplinger's Run-Julia Lynn Rubin has studied under David Levithan at The New School's MFA program-Rubin is a Girls Write Now mentor, and an excerpt from Burro Hills will be featured in the Girls Write Now 2017 Anthology, forthcoming in May 2017 (https://www.girlswritenow.org/what-we-write/anthologies/rise-speak-change-the-girls-write-now-2017-anthology/)