cover art by Bhavna Madan / Insta: @kidovna

Hannah Montana meets Heartstopper in this story of a teen pop star on the run from fame who finds family, love and gender euphoria when they become entangled with a local band.

Teen pop sensation Sasha may be famous, but they’ve always kept a layer of anonymity by covering their face to perform. Facing pressure to unmask in public, Sasha runs away to a nowhere midwestern city, planning to finish senior year and come out as nonbinary away from the limelight. But their plan falters from the moment they meet Wavelength, an alt-rock band, and their lead singer

Lillian is struggling to keep the band together, caught in a mess of lyrics, late-night texts and ill-conceived love notes. She’s torn between feelings for her ex-girlfriend (and ex-bandmember) and her new infatuation with Sasha. Maybe this stranger is the new singer and the new love she’s looking for — even though Sasha’s stories don’t seem to quite add up.

If a whisper of Sasha’s fame gets out, their new life is over. Sasha’s manager is tracking them down, Wavelength is on the rise, and everyone’s hearts are in the mosh pit. Turn off the houselights. The band’s counting in.

An emotional, heartwarming debut filled with queer joy.

—Kirkus Reviews

An electric, poignant and fun! ride, Wavelength has all the urgency of being in your teens, in a band, in love – all the best ‘in’s! A well-balanced shifting narrative of two kids who come together like magnets, unable to resist, Lillian and Sasha are pure force. These characters feel fresh and filled-out, and this band feels palpable and real. Cale Plett is a talent! and an awesome addition to YA. 

—Katherena Vermette, Governor General Award-winning author

Cale Plett weaves together some of my favourite romantic comedy tropes like hidden identities and small town settings, with some of the most beautiful writing I’ve seen in YA literature.

—Tanya Boteju, author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

Cale Plett hits all the rights notes in this queer coming-of-age novel — a euphoric, lyrical book that’ll have your heart singing!

—Matthew Hubbard, critically acclaimed author of The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

cover art by Evangeline Gallagher / Insta: @eveangelinegallagher

For fans of The Last Bookstore on Earth and Compound Fracture, a heart-pounding rural YA horror novel following a nonbinary teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own. This story is for anyone haunted by the sins of past generations—and fighting to right them.

When Cedar was a child, fragmented, tortured souls woke up in the world’s most complex machines, destroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fall, some said, and they called it Autumn.

Ten years later, following a family tragedy, Cedar moves to the nowhere town of Sawblade Lake only to find something hunting them. A long, bent shadow that reeks like rot and has the mouth of a deep crevice. It’s after Cedar, and it’s willing to go to any lengths to break them, including preying on Cedar’s new queer family.

The closer it circles, the more it seems to weave through Cedar’s whole life. It might stretch back to their mother’s gruesome, inexplicable death, to the murk of their missing family, to the house they grew up in. Back and back and back to the first day of Autumn.

Cedar thought they understood how their world had changed, but they’re far from dredging the bottom.

Raw, unsettling, and new-bruise tender, The Saw Mouth completely captured me. Plett’s horror debut is a gift to readers looking for the bright heart in the dark.

—Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls, Burn Our Bodies Down, and Kill Creatures  

Plett’s writing is stunning. The Saw Mouth balances thrilling, sinister horror with moments of the softest tenderness and love. It’s a story of finding shelter in people, when darkness tries its best to inhabit you.

—Tanya Boteju, author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

Grimy, brutal, and brilliant, with a painfully vivid queer cast and a setting so well constructed you can smell the smoke. Plett holds back nothing in this story of fierce love and tested loyalty.

—Matteo L. Cerilli, author of Lockjaw