The celesbian indie pop twin sister duo Tegan & Sara's new middle-grade graphic novel Crush, a follow-up to the previous installment Junior High, is created in collaboration with queer cartoonist superstar Tillie Walden and deals with the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, including crushes, puberty, coming out, sisterhood, music, and friendship. The autobiographical series, set in the present day, is "lightly fictionalized" but draws on the Canadian siblings' real experiences. As a fan of the sisters' poignant coming-of-age memoir High School and its Amazon Freevee TV adaptation of the same name, I can't tell you how much a book like this would have meant to me as a tween, and I'm so happy for the Gen Alpha kids who get to grow up with this kind of media. Stop by Washington Hall to see Tegan and Sara speak on everything from first loves to songwriting. by Julianne Bell