By Candice Iloh (author)
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A Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation.
But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system and live their dreams? Cerulean is truly brilliant, but their sheltered upbringing hasn't prepared them for the consequences of their choice - especially not when it's compounded by a family emergency that puts a parent out of work.
Suddenly the money they'd been stacking with their friends is a resource that the family needs to stay afloat. Salt the Water is a book about dreaming in a world that has other plans for your time, your youth, and your future. It asks, what does it look like when a bunch of queer Black kids are allowed to dream?
And what does it look like for them to confront the present circumstances of the people they love while still pursuing a wildly different future of their own?
Candice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington, DC, and Brooklyn, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and, in 2021, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water, their third novel, earned Candice their second Michael L. Printz Award Honor in 2024.
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A Michael L. Printz Award Honor BookCerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Salt the Water and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
Salt the Water features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Featured Books for Young Adults, Stories in Verse, PSHE: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Inclusion, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE)
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Salt the Water was written by Candice Iloh and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
Salt the Water has 274 pages
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