Anna-Marie McLemore. (2022). Lakelore. Feiwel & Friends.

Anna-Marie McLemore. 2022. Lakelore. Feiwel & Friends.

Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore. Feiwel & Friends, 2022.

Anna-Marie McLemore. Lakelore. Feiwel & Friends, 2022.

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   • bioText: Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is the author of The Weight of Feathers, Wild Beauty, Blanca & Roja, Dark and Deepest Red, Lakelore, Venom & Vow (co-authored with Elliott McLemore), and National Book Award longlist selections When the Moon Was Ours, The Mirror Season, and Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix. They have received the Michael L. Printz Award, the Stonewall Honor, the Otherwise Award, three Northern California Book Awards, and an Américas Honor.
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In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact?
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore's only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate.
Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. There's just one problem: Bastián and Lore haven't spoken in seven years, and working together means trusting each other with the very things they're trying to hide.

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   • source: Publishers Weekly, starred review
   • content: "In this sumptuous tale of magical realism told via alternating perspectives, McLemore holds up realities of being neurodivergent while otherwise marginalized alongside strong friendships and vital family relationships that ground the protagonists."
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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: "Like Lore, who defiantly states, "I am a brown girl, just like I'm a brown boy, just like I'm both and neither, in different proportions depending on the day," Lakelore celebrates the strength and imprecise elegance of claiming your own truth."
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   • source: Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
   • content: "An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care."
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   • source: Aisha Saeed, New York Times-bestselling author of Amal Unbound and Yes No Maybe So
   • content: "A powerful, harrowing, and important story about trauma, identity, taking back power and the redemptive nature of healing. These characters will stay with me forever. An absolute must read."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews, starred review
   • content: "McLemore weaves another magic spell ... This novel will leave an indelible mark on readers' hearts."
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   • source: Booklist, starred review
   • content: "McLemore fashions another gorgeous novel...McLemore's well-choreographed story will dance on in readers' minds."
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     Starred review from January 31, 2022
     Seven years after their first meeting took them to a mystical world under body of water Lakelore, 16-year-old trans nonbinary, neurodivergent teens Lore Garcia and Bastián Silvano, both Mexican American, meet again when Lore’s family relocates to Bastián’s town to avoid dyslexic Lore’s difficult past. Bastián, who has ADHD, learned from their brother to emotionally regulate by creating alebrijes—papier-mâché sculptures of mythical creatures—that Bastián releases into Lakelore, where the sculptures come to life. But freeing them cost Bastián the world below, since returning would reunite them and their anxieties. When the world under Lakelore begins to rise above the surface, and the reunited teens’ feelings for each other grow, their attempts at normalcy are jeopardized. In this sumptuous tale of magical realism told via alternating perspectives, McLemore (The Mirror Season) holds up realities of being neurodivergent while otherwise marginalized alongside strong friendships and vital family relationships that ground the protagonists. Bastián and Lore are deeply empathetic, loving characters embodying each facet of their intersecting identities with anxiety, hope, and pride that binds them to each other as much as to the loving community that surrounds them. Ages 13–up. Agent: Taylor Martindale Kean, Full Circle Literary.

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     March 1, 2022
     

     Gr 7 Up-Although many people no longer remember the lore of the nearby lake, Basti�n has always been privy to its secrets. A transmasculine nonbinary boy with ADHD, they are able to manage their symptoms by creating alebrijos, papier-m�ch� sculptures of fantastical creatures, and releasing them into the lake. Only one other person knows the secrets of the lake-Lore, a genderfluid nonbinary teen with dyslexia who has just moved to Basti�n's town after an event they refuse to speak about. Although Basti�n and Lore share feelings of anxiety and shame around their neurodivergence, they find themselves revealing more of that part of themselves as they attempt to calm the magic of the lake. The intricacies of identity and intersectionality, and the fantastical manifestations of both teens' insecurities, are exquisitely painted in flowing prose. McLemore does not shy away from the realities of being nonbinary, neurodivergent, and brown, but the focus remains on Basti�n and Lore's growing acceptance of who they are, as well as the depiction of Basti�n's ADHD ventures into realities beyond the typical descriptions of hyperactivity and impulsivity. Refreshingly, the teens both have supportive families and the conflict does not center on gender identity. VERDICT An especially important purchase for school libraries, but a strong candidate for inclusion in most collections serving teens.-Austin Ferraro

     Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 1, 2022
     Two teens -- both brown, trans, and neurodivergent -- reunite years after a chance meeting and find themselves bound together by their most personal experiences and by the magic of a local lake. Bastian copes with ADHD and the next step of their gender transition by creating alebrijes -- brightly painted, fantastical, papier-mache creatures -- and sending them into the lake. Lore, who is dyslexic and was bullied at their old school, moved to town after a devastating fight. As the lake's magic breaks its usual boundaries, seeping into Bastian's and Lore's lives on dry land, they realize that it is responding to the painful emotions they've released into the water (Bastian via alebrijes, Lore through cans of paint) and that they can't reject their own pain or imperfections. The book is committed to its characters' gender, racial, and neurodivergent identities; while this focus can feel overworked at points, the intimacy and seriousness with which it addresses neurodivergence in particular is welcome. McLemore (The Mirror Season, rev. 5/21) successfully binds the novel's fantasy elements to the inner lives of their characters, strengthening the narrative effects of both the mundane and the magical. Readers with identities in common with the protagonists will find relief and recognition in this impassioned book, and teens in general should feel welcomed by its warmly open storytelling. Alex Schaffner

     (Copyright 2022 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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      Starred review from February 1, 2022
      Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* Basti�n and Lore are the only people who know what's really under the lake--a magical world where Basti�n's alebrijes, or animal sculptures, have actually come to life. The two nonbinary, neurodivergent teens (Basti�n has ADHD, and Lore has dyslexia) are quickly pulled into a world that begins to invade their lives above the surface, just as Basti�n always feared it might. But Lore is running from the trauma of abuse, and the lake has become a lifeline for them, and although the two have not spoken to each other in seven years, they now must work together to figure out what is happening to them and how to keep their world intact. McLemore's latest is a strongly character-driven work of magical realism, with the setting acting as a character of its own. The lake's magic responds to both Basti�n and Lore, creating a world that honors who they both are, including the strengths of their dyslexia and ADHD. The story encourages these characters, whose relationships with others are also complex and incredibly real, to explore their past experiences and trauma with gentleness and to come into the confidence to show the world their real colors. An astonishingly beautiful love letter to neurodivergent and nonbinary teens cast amid a magical lake setting that will pull you in right along with the characters.

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      Starred review from January 15, 2022
      The rising waters of a hidden world threaten to drown Basti�n and Lore, two trans nonbinary Mexican American teens, in the truths and pasts they've tried to cast away. No one believes the legends about the world beneath the lake anymore. No one has seen it except Basti�n Silvano and Lore Garcia. The world wouldn't open when Basti�n tried to show it to anyone else--not until Lore needed a place to hide on a day long before they knew one another's names. Now, a mistake Lore desperately wants to leave behind has moved their family to the lakeshore, but the underwater world is not the same quiet refuge. It's filled with living papier-m�ch� alebrijes, each one a representation of Basti�n's anxieties. As the once-secluded world swells above the surface, the lake's seiches pull Basti�n and Lore together again. In characteristically majestic prose, McLemore crafts vivid magic that balances scenes of overwhelming, unregulated emotions given life by the lake with soothing, sincere moments of love, self-affirmation, and gentle humor. The primary characters, Basti�n (who has ADHD), and Lore (who is dyslexic), have family and friends who truly see them even as they confront trauma and internalized shame. Affinity draws them to one another, helping them toward growth that is significant because it does not erase their neurodivergence and because it is personal, not reliant on codependence. A beauty both bright and deep. (author's note) (Fantasy. 14-18)

      COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      January 1, 2022
      Two teens -- both brown, trans, and neurodivergent -- reunite years after a chance meeting and find themselves bound together by their most personal experiences and by the magic of a local lake. Bastian copes with ADHD and the next step of their gender transition by creating alebrijes -- brightly painted, fantastical, papier-mache creatures -- and sending them into the lake. Lore, who is dyslexic and was bullied at their old school, moved to town after a devastating fight. As the lake's magic breaks its usual boundaries, seeping into Bastian's and Lore's lives on dry land, they realize that it is responding to the painful emotions they've released into the water (Bastian via alebrijes, Lore through cans of paint) and that they can't reject their own pain or imperfections. The book is committed to its characters' gender, racial, and neurodivergent identities; while this focus can feel overworked at points, the intimacy and seriousness with which it addresses neurodivergence in particular is welcome. McLemore (The Mirror Season, rev. 5/21) successfully binds the novel's fantasy elements to the inner lives of their characters, strengthening the narrative effects of both the mundane and the magical. Readers with identities in common with the protagonists will find relief and recognition in this impassioned book, and teens in general should feel welcomed by its warmly open storytelling.

      (Copyright 2022 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore's only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate.
Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. There's just one problem: Bastián and Lore haven't spoken in seven years, and working together means trusting each other with the very things...

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