Cemetery Boys

"Cemetery Boys" by Aiden Thomas is a captivating queer YA-novel about a young boy’s courage to face who he really is.

Yadriel has somehow summoned a ghost! His Laxtinx family won’t accept his true gender, and Yadriel wants to prove that he can be a real brujo. Together with his best friend and cousin, Maritza, he performs a ritual to release the ghost of his murdered cousin. But he ends up summoning the school’s bad boy, Julian Diaz, who has unfinished business on his own. Yadriel is now forced to help out Julian, so they both can fulfill their goals. But slowly the two boys enjoy each other’s company more and more and fear the moment Julian will disappear again.

 

In "Cemetery Boys" Aiden Thomas tells a fantastic story about a queer, trans Latinx teenager who falls in love with a ghost.