Ilanah Cami-Goursolas

Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.

Lyes is ripped away from the foster mother who'd raised him since he was a baby and hoped to adopt him. He gets thrown into the violent world of group homes.