Fifteen-year-old Kivali has never fit in. As a girl in boys\u2019 clothes, she is accepted by neither tribe, bullied by both.\u00a0What are you?<\/i>\u00a0they ask. Abandoned as a baby wrapped in a T-shirt with an image of a lizard on the front, Kivali found a home with nonconformist artist Sheila. Is it true what Sheila says, that Kivali was left by a mysterious race of saurians and that she\u2019ll one day save the world? Kivali doesn\u2019t think so. But if it is true, why has Sheila sent her off to CropCamp, with its schedules and regs and what feels like indoctrination into a gov-controlled society Kivali isn\u2019t sure has good intentions?<\/p>\n

But life at CropCamp isn\u2019t all bad. Kivali loves being outdoors and working in the fields. And for the first time, she has real friends: sweet, innocent Rasta; loyal Emmett; fierce, quiet Nona. And then there\u2019s Sully. The feelings that explode inside Kivali whenever Sully is near\u2014whenever they touch\u2014are unlike anything she\u2019s experienced, exhilarating and terrifying. But does Sully feel the same way?<\/p>\n

Between mysterious disappearances, tough questions from camp director Ms. Mischetti, and weekly doses of kickshaw\u2014the strange, druglike morsel that Kivali fears but has come to crave\u2014things get more and more complicated. But Kivali has an escape: her unique ability to channel and explore the power of her animal self. She has Lizard Radio.<\/p>\n

Will it be enough to save her?<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Genderqueer, gender-non-conforming, sapphic-leaning protagonist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Homophobic and transphobic dystopian government; violence against children; possibly stereotypical depiction of bisexual supporting character <\/div>