Things in the Basement Malinda Lo Jessica knows she’s the better

Jessica knows she’s the better dancer – but their teacher only seems to have eyes for her sister Elizabeth

Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx

find strength in community

He wants to pretend like everything is fine

Deena can create something truly beautiful

Things in the Basement Malinda Lo Jessica knows she’s the betterFrom New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke comes Things in the Basement, a young readers graphic novel about Milo, a young boy who discovers a portal to a secret world in his basement. It was supposed to just be a normal basementsome storage boxes, dust, you know, the usual basement stuff. But when Milo is sent by his mother to fetch a sock from the basement of the historic home they've moved into, Milo finds a door in the back that he's never