Status
Available
Publication
Candlewick (2015), Edition: Reprint, 192 pages
Library's review
"uklin (No Choirboy, 2008, etc.) brings her intimate, compassionate and respectful lens to the stories of six transgender young people.
In verbal and, when the subjects have given permission, visual profiles, readers meet transgender teens with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. They hear
Informative, revealing, powerful and necessary. (author’s note, glossary, resource list) (Nonfiction. 12 & up)" A Kirkus Starred Review, www.kirkusreviews.com
In verbal and, when the subjects have given permission, visual profiles, readers meet transgender teens with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. They hear
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from teens who identify fully as female or male, teens who identify as neither male nor female, and one teen who is intersex. Their stories are told largely in the teens’ own words, with only a few italicized interpolations to clarify or contextualize a point or to describe a facial expression or inflection readers cannot see or hear. In photographs, readers see Nat, who attends a performing-arts high school in New York City and uses the personal gender pronouns them and they, carrying their violin on New York’s High Line. Christina, who attends Fashion Institute of Technology, is pictured shopping for clothes, proudly displaying a school project and hugging her mother. Images of the young people before their transitions are often included but, appropriately, do not serve as focal points for their chapters. Similarly, sex and genitalia are discussed frankly but are rarely what matters most. The collective portrait that emerges from these narratives and pictures is diverse, complex and occasionally self-contradictory—as any true story should be.Informative, revealing, powerful and necessary. (author’s note, glossary, resource list) (Nonfiction. 12 & up)" A Kirkus Starred Review, www.kirkusreviews.com
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Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2015)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (Nonfiction — 2014)
Stonewall Book Award (Honor Book — Children's and Young Adult Literature — 2015)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Teen — 2017)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (2015)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
ALA Rainbow Book List (Selection — 2015)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2015)
CCBC Choices (2015)
Tayshas High School Reading List (Top Ten — 2015)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Teens (Nonfiction — 2014)
OYAN Book Rave (2015)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2014-02-11
ISBN
0763673684 / 9780763673680
Other editions
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin (Paperback)