No limit on love
YA for Reluctant Readers 14-18 (click image to purchase)
This novel tells a contemporary and timely story of love outside the binary, as experienced by today’s teens. In this novel a teen realizing their nonbinary identity and a gender-fluid boy discover together that there’s no longer any need for labels. Dan has an increasingly common climate anxiety. After a storm devastated parts of Ottawa, it’s hard to get climate change out of mind. Dan goes to help clean up at the school, but only one other person turns Levi, who is handsome, progressive― and shows a strong interest in Dan. And what’s more, Levi is also pondering gender fluidity and the necessity of applying any labels at all. Dan falls just as hard, and it’s clear they’re going to learn and grow together on this journey as Dan embraces their nonbinary true self. With unerring accuracy and authenticity, nonbinary romance author Alison Lister’s debut young adult romance is a heart-warming story for this exact moment in history.
summer with sunil
YA for Reluctant Readers 14-18 (click image to purchase)
Sometimes love can be found in the most surprising places…
In Alison Lister’s second Real Love novel, two kids on holiday, both sure they must be the only queer people for kilometres, find each other and sparks fly.
Dominic, a trans teen, is stuck on vacation in sleepy coastal Nova Scotia with their parents, all summer, with no other company. Sunil is all alone in a rented beach house while their dad is off hanging out with his new girlfriend. A chance encounter with Sunil on the beach catches Dominic by surprise, and all of a sudden, their summer doesn’t look so bleak.
What follows is a vivid, romantic story full of self-exploration and the gauzy haze of summer love.
Lister’s dynamic, realistic characters and the authenticity of their connection are set against the vivid backdrop of Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast.
