Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

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Clap When You Land
Cover of Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Author(s) Elizabeth Acevedo
Published May 5, 2020
Publisher Quill Tree Books
Genre(s) Contemporary Fiction
Age group Young Adult


Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo is a young adult contemporary novel, originally published on May 5, 2020.

Trigger Warnings

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  • Assault
  • Attempted rape
    At about 90% into the book, someone attempts to rape Camino. She gets saved before it happens, though.
  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Cheating
  • Death (parent)
    The father of both main characters dies in a plane crash.
  • Grief
  • Parental death (past)
  • Parental separation
  • Plane crash
  • Premature labour
  • Risk of child death (neonatal)
  • Sexual assault
    At about 40% into the book, Yahaira talks about being felt up in a train.
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sex trafficking
  • Threat of forced sex work

Representation

An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.

  • Black main characters*
  • Latinx main characters*
  • F/F relationship

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