Author of FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN Kai Cheng Thom’s THE SHAPESHIFTER’S GUIDE TO GYM CLASS, pitched as Turning Red meets Animorphs with a udy Blume twist, a middle grade fantasy with dual narratives: one of which follows a shapeshifter who is frustrated by her powers, while the second unravels as a guidebook-in-progress that speaks more directly about puberty, bodies, gender fluidity, and transitions of all kinds, to Yashaswi Kesanakurthy at Simon & Schuster Canada Children’s, for publication in fall 2026, by Marilyn Biderman and Leonicka Valcius at Transatlantic Literary Agency (world).
Kai Cheng is jointly represented by Léonicka Valcius and Marilyn Biderman.
Congratulations, Kai Cheng!